Is there a way to throw a control-c break to a task running as @spawn? The specific case is that, when running the SoX commandline music player, one sends control-c to tell the player to stop play, ie p = @spawn(run(`play $args`)) and, now I might want to stop the music early.

Throw control-c to @spawn task?

tkf March 29, 2020, 12:03am 2

Making control-c work with @spawn is a very hard problem.

But I don’t think you need @spawn here. Why not just use p = run(`play $args`; wait=false)? You can then kill(p).

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