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From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Waiting for 'compile' to finish
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:35:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr05bblz0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877c73mzyv.fsf@neko.mail-host-address-is-not-set

>> I meant "programmatically", as in: checking if the process/thread is alive or not.
> poll it in idle timer

If you can find the process object (which you presumably need in order
to "poll"), then you can just as well use the process's sentinel instead
of polling.


        Stefan




      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-01-09 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-09 19:44 Waiting for 'compile' to finish Marco Antoniotti
2025-01-09 19:50 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2025-01-09 20:00   ` Marco Antoniotti
2025-01-09 20:18     ` Bruno Barbier
2025-01-09 21:05       ` Marco Antoniotti
2025-01-09 21:23         ` Bruno Barbier
2025-01-09 21:25           ` Marco Antoniotti
2025-01-09 22:02             ` Bruno Barbier
2025-01-09 21:36     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2025-01-09 21:38       ` Marco Antoniotti
2025-01-10  9:25         ` Tomas Hlavaty
2025-01-09 23:35       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]

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