From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-08-17T03:23:58+09:00
Subject: Re: spawning a process

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:12:24 +0900
"Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:

<snip>
> I want to play a sound file in a new process, but I want the ability to
> terminate, stop, and continue this process from the file I am in.
> 
> Any suggestions?

   pid = fork {
      play_sound(...)
   }

Then look in the Process module for all the things you can do with a
PID.

hth,

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