Re: Emacs-25: stop-process has no effect on linux

[T.V Raman]

Yes, I verified that before reporting the issue -- C-c C-z in a shell
running either play or mplayer works, they also respond correctly to
being resumed at the shell by typing "fg" or "bg"

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > From: address@hidden (T.V Raman)
 > > Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 09:15:07 -0800
 > > Cc: address@hidden,
 > >     address@hidden
 > > 
 > > Here is a simple test:
 > > 
 > > (setq proc 
 > >       (let ((process-connection-type nil)); also tried with t 
 > > (start-process "play" "Play" "play" ; play is from sox 
 > > <myfile.mp3>)))
 > > (process-status proc) -- run if it worked 
 > > (stop-process proc) -- no-op
 > > (delete-process proc) ; kills it
 > > 
 > > The same happens if you substitute play with mplayer.
 > 
 > Could it be that these two programs catch and ignore SIGTSTP?  That's
 > the signal sent by stop-process.  Can you stop them with "kill -TSTP"
 > from the shell prompt?

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