David Stacey wrote > I was testing with > cat ding.wav > /dev/dsp > This gives a segmentation fault with the latest (2014-03-18) snapshot; > no sound is heard However, if I repeat your test: > cp ding.wav /dev/dsp > Then that works and the ding dings. Which confuses me greatly - I've > been using *nix for nearly 20 years, and I honestly would have said that > the two lines above were synonymous - they're obviously not!
Two things I can think of: 1) With "cat" the output file is created/handled by the shell, whereas "cp" is doing its own file creation. You should see what's going on by: strace cat ding.wav > /dev/dsp strace cp ding.wav /dev/dsp 2) Cat is trying to expand sparse files and perhaps it thinks of your ding.wav as containing sparse data? Also, I would guess, that the dsp driver should handle bit streamed input differently than a block copy/dump? -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Re-sox-package-is-broken-tp106970p107200.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
