Re: Did something change with respect to Emacs idle loop:

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Symptoms: Run processes like mplayer via start-process from
>     inside emacs,  e.g. playing an mp3 file ---
>     output comes to a stop after a fixed length of time -- typically
>     about a minute. Any form of kbd activity --- even the first key
>     in a multi-key sequence -- gets things unwedged i.e. the mp3
>     stream continues to play.
>
> Does anyone else observe this problem?

I've tried playing an album through Emacs (today's CVS) like this:

  (apply 'start-process
         (append (list "my-process" nil "/usr/bin/mplayer")
         (cdr (cdr (directory-files "/home/cyd/music/aq" t)))))

15 minutes later, it's still playing; I observe no freeze in the
output.  Do all subprocess all eventually stop for you, or does it
happen only some of the times you run a subprocess?  I've tried this 3
times: on X in an X window, in an xterm with "emacs -nw", and on the
Linux console.