From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
Subject: Re: Checking Process Status
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:37:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptpxv1qu.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E49910F.8090208@ihs.com
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>>>Jay Belanger wrote:
>>>>Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>
>>>>>Then force M-x compile to run the command synchronously:
>>>>>
>>>>>(fmakunbound 'start-process)
>>>>>
>>>>If I try that here (not with M-x compile), I get the message
>>>>"Multi-processing is not supported for this system"
>>>>(RedHat 8.0 with CVS emacs)
>>>>
>>>That is one of the undesirable consequences I alluded to.
>> Might as well be a bug in compile.el: sounds like some of its
>> condition to run the synchronous path are based on system-type, not
>> on start-process being not fboundp. Perhaps this should be reported
>> as a bug.
>
> I thought that when Jay wrote "not with M-x compile", he meant that some other
> package that _requires_ asynchronous subprocess support had signalled the error.
Yeah, that's what I meant.
It was probably a dissimilar enough situation that that
(fmakunbound 'start-process)
wasn't supposed to apply.
At any rate, Kevin's advice
> Is a nil TIMEOUT interpreted by accept-process-output as 0 or infinity? If
> it's 0, try specifying a really large value (like most-positive-fixnum), or
> calling it in a loop.
seems to work, using
(accept-process-output myprocess 1000)
instead of
(accept-process-output myprocess)
seems to work.
Thanks!
Jay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-12 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-02-12 0:10 ` Checking Process Status Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-12 17:37 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2003-02-03 14:53 CarlC
2003-02-03 15:04 ` David Kastrup
2003-02-03 17:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-03 22:19 ` CarlC
2003-02-03 22:15 ` CarlC
2003-02-03 22:29 ` David Kastrup
2003-02-03 22:42 ` CarlC
2003-02-03 23:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-04 17:20 ` Jay Belanger
2003-02-10 20:47 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-11 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-12 22:03 ` CarlC
[not found] ` <qWz2a.39840$yn1.1668284@twister.austin.rr.com>
2003-02-12 22:43 ` David Kastrup
2003-02-12 22:55 ` CarlC
2003-02-12 23:17 ` David Kastrup
2003-02-13 9:37 ` Kai Großjohann
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