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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: start-process: nil check on arg program
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:58:00 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608251555280.8171@calancha-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg5dqrfm.fsf@linux-m68k.org>



On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> On Aug 25 2016, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> * If program is nil, for instance,
>> (start-process "foo" "buf" nil)
>> which IMO it shouldn't ever happend, that check don't
>> prevent the creation of a useless process.
>
> nil is explicitly documented as a meaningful argument.
You are right. Thanks!
Maybe in my example has no much sense, i mean, just
(start-process "foo" "buf" nil)
but with additional arguments,
i.e.
(start-process "foo" "buf" nil args)
it might have sense.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-25  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-25  6:06 start-process: nil check on arg program Tino Calancha
2016-08-25  6:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-08-25  6:58   ` Tino Calancha [this message]
2016-08-25  7:11     ` Andreas Röhler

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