From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Starting a subprocess in stopped state Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 10:25:03 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <831ss7hyh0.fsf@gnu.org> <83tw4zg3rj.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmr6wngl.fsf@zigzag> <83bmr6fmch.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494177922 23139 195.159.176.226 (7 May 2017 17:25:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 17:25:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cc: Daiki Ueno To: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 07 19:25:17 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7Pvo-0005pX-RM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 19:25:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56260 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7Pvr-00075Y-Go for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 13:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7Pvj-00073a-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 13:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7Pvi-0007Wj-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 13:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:58852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7Pve-0007Sj-Qz; Sun, 07 May 2017 13:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD81160070; Sun, 7 May 2017 10:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id jG6IP3ELy0jE; Sun, 7 May 2017 10:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C669B1600B9; Sun, 7 May 2017 10:25:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id ipXP2DidRjzX; Sun, 7 May 2017 10:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.188.248]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A032F160070; Sun, 7 May 2017 10:25:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83bmr6fmch.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214681 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Is there a way to create a process on Unix and GNU systems, but > prevent it from running until it gets SIGCONT or something similar? Sure, the parent can fork and the child can send itself a SIGSTOP before doing the exec.