Re: Sound

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gijs <gijs@afake-address.tv>
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:56:20 +0100
> 
> But (for example) 
> Welcome to the Emacs shell
> ~ $ play file.wav
> 
> works
> 
> Why!? Does Emacs handle sound by its own, bypassing the OS?

I don't know what you meant by ``bypassing the OS''.  Emacs uses the
OS interface to the sound device (ioctl, write, etc. system calls),
but if you were asking whether it calls the `play' utility internally,
then no, it doesn't.  However, the system calls Emacs issues to play
the sound are supposed to be the equivalent of what `play' does.