Re: [SoX-users] backgrounding

[Jan S. <ha...@st...>]

On May 28 19:09:01, pj...@pj... wrote:
> Pascal Giard wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, `play -q backing.wav &` works as expected here i.e. does play.
> 
> Great :-) ; I'll assume that (perhaps because it was noticed by
> Rob 26jul2009 ?) it got into the sox TODO list and was fixed.

I don't think so. Running 'play -q file.wav &' works as expected
for me using 14.2.0 here, too; it's not something that 'got fixed'.

Show me the ps(1) output that shows the play/sox process as stopped
after you start it like that.

> Yes, the xterm is started with the command (I abbreviate the font...)
>   exec xterm -geometry 80x36+2-0 -bg 'old lace' +sb -e bash &
> 
> > What is your $SHELL? (echo $SHELL)
> 
> /bin/bash
>
> > Have you tried starting some other processes like this?
> 
> Of course, all the time.

I still think this is a shell problem and is not related to sox.
Anyway, is the 'play' command you are using really sox's play?
('play --version')

Can you ktrace/systrace/whatever the shell process to see
where exactly did the STOP signal come from? Because them
there processes don't just STOP themselvses ...