From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:10:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <18765.19040.568030.246241@tfkp04.physik.uni-erlangen.de> <18765.29820.997276.703222@tfkp04.physik.uni-erlangen.de> <18765.51840.943986.608296@tfkp04.physik.uni-erlangen.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229973036 9445 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2008 19:10:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:10:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 22 20:11:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LEqBm-0000cV-Ii for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:11:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52388 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEqAZ-0002fz-ME for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:10:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEqAU-0002ft-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEqAT-0002fh-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39341 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEqAT-0002fe-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:14081) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LEqAQ-0006Zm-KR; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:10:14 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout4.012.net.il by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KCA00400L4SI000@i_mtaout4.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:12:43 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.252.83]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KCA00030LD6Q4C0@i_mtaout4.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:12:43 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107189 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:17:15 +0900 > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de, > Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > So I don't understand why you insist on the above, please feel free to > > explain what advantages do you see there. > > More elegant, less confusing than a "magic" value for the ppid. But I wasn't suggesting to use magic values. You confused me with someone else. I was suggesting a primitive, so that Lisp code will be oblivious as to how tree root is determined.