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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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?