Yup, I can reproduce this. First I launch iTunes and start something
playing. From the terminal I do
ps -A | grep iTunes
to get the process ID of iTunes, which is the first number listed. In my
case it was 63238. So if I do a
kill -s SIGSTOP 63238
not only does iTunes freeze, as expected, b
It means that there is a fairly critical bit of the OSX infrastructure
that can be taken down by one app acting badly. If your browser crashed
you would expect the network connection to still work and if your mail
app died while writing something to disk you would expect the disk input
output s
Hi Ray,
SoX is a basic cross-platform sound exchange program that works as a command
line utility to convert between a wide variety of computer audio files. (At
the sourceforge page it bills itself as "the Swiss Army knife of sound
processing programs.") It can also play and record sounds. I
And the point of all this is?
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On Nov 11, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Doug Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:57:42AM -0600, Chris Bagwell wrote:
>>
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:57:42AM -0600, Chris Bagwell wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Doug Lee wrote:
> > Not sure if this is a MacOS problem, a SoX problem, or both.
> >
> > Tested on MacOS SnowLeopard (and Leopard I think, but I'm not sure of
> > that) with SoX 14.3.2 as installed vi
Interesting. Could be either. On the one hand, if you had a process
doing disk I/O and suspended it, that process shouldn't suspend all disk
I/O in the whole system. So it seems like the sound I/O process isn't as
robust if a single process can lock it down so nothing else can use it.
That said
Not sure if this is a MacOS problem, a SoX problem, or both.
Tested on MacOS SnowLeopard (and Leopard I think, but I'm not sure of
that) with SoX 14.3.2 as installed via MacPorts.
Problem: I can block all sounds on MacOS by suspending a SoX play.
Steps to reproduce:
Verify that system sounds wo
