* bug#8149: 23.2; Docs: "in a separate process"
@ 2011-03-01 23:28 Dave Abrahams
2011-03-02 2:58 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Dave Abrahams @ 2011-03-01 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 8149
`37.3 Creating a Synchronous Process' sez, repeatedly, that the
synchronous processes created are called "in a separate process."
Now, either that is obvious, since when you create a process it is of
course a separate process from Emacs, or it means something that I can't
guess at. It's confusing because shell-command-to-string conspicuously
leaves out the words "in a separate process," leading me to wonder if
it's doing something fundamentally difference and to think maybe I can't
really replace invocations of shell-command-to-string with
(appropriately reformulated) invocations of call-process-shell-command,
as I plan to.
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* bug#8149: 23.2; Docs: "in a separate process"
2011-03-01 23:28 bug#8149: 23.2; Docs: "in a separate process" Dave Abrahams
@ 2011-03-02 2:58 ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-05 20:46 ` Chong Yidong
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2011-03-02 2:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Abrahams; +Cc: 8149
Dave Abrahams wrote:
> Now, either that is obvious, since when you create a process it is of
> course a separate process from Emacs, or it means something that I can't
> guess at. It's confusing because shell-command-to-string conspicuously
> leaves out the words "in a separate process," leading me to wonder if
> it's doing something fundamentally difference and to think maybe I can't
> really replace invocations of shell-command-to-string with
> (appropriately reformulated) invocations of call-process-shell-command,
> as I plan to.
I'm not sure there is any special significance to the "separate process"
thing, it might just be a turn of phrase that was copied from some
original description as more of these call-process etc functions were
added.
If you look at how shell-command-to-string and
call-process-shell-command are actually implemented, both use
`call-process', just in different ways.
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* bug#8149: 23.2; Docs: "in a separate process"
2011-03-02 2:58 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2011-03-05 20:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-07 16:10 ` Dave Abrahams
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From: Chong Yidong @ 2011-03-05 20:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: Dave Abrahams, 8149
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> I'm not sure there is any special significance to the "separate process"
> thing, it might just be a turn of phrase that was copied from some
> original description as more of these call-process etc functions were
> added.
I've tweaked the places that use this phrase to make it clearer.
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* bug#8149: 23.2; Docs: "in a separate process"
2011-03-05 20:46 ` Chong Yidong
@ 2011-03-07 16:10 ` Dave Abrahams
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From: Dave Abrahams @ 2011-03-07 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chong Yidong; +Cc: 8149
Many, many thanks for your responsive improvements!
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I'm not sure there is any special significance to the "separate process"
>> thing, it might just be a turn of phrase that was copied from some
>> original description as more of these call-process etc functions were
>> added.
>
> I've tweaked the places that use this phrase to make it clearer.
>
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
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