From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal for extending set-process-filter Date: 27 Apr 2004 17:25:59 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083101591 5736 80.91.224.253 (27 Apr 2004 21:33:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 27 23:33:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIaCN-0003aD-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:33:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIaCN-0006GY-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:33:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIa71-0004ln-Sw for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIa6b-0004ic-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIa65-0004Qi-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIa5Y-0003vA-I6; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 405D920AF8; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:25:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 22D6A8C6AE; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:25:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-1.524, requis 5, BAYES_01 -1.52) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22269 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22269 >> Why do we need that option? A filter function can easily discard the >> data. > Basically, I am again mostly thinking of eshell here: again, the > utility is minor after start-process has already been done. It think it makes sense to provide a way to close a process's file descriptor. We already have process-send-eof to close stdin. Stefan