Re: cdp Strange behavior?

[Keith Owens]

On Thu, 09 May 2002 09:55:28 +0530, 
"P a v a n" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>yesterday i got my redhat 7.2 up and running.it had a package for palying audiocd's.its called cdp and had a text interface for a dumb terminal.inoticed a strange behavior.i was listening to the song and i gave the shutdown command..even when the system i completely halted(power down too) the cdp is still running.(i think it should as iam listening  the songs still).i have a creative cdrom.i have a doubt.are there any cdroms which are programmed to behave this way.i mean which depend on BIOS may be..i didnt make anything how its running.

Please learn to use word wrap, long lines are difficult to read.

This is normal processing.  cdp just tells the cdrom to play, it is
then outside kernel control.  You can get the same effect by starting
cdp then killing it, the cd continues to play.