From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Checking Process Status Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:37:45 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E49910F.8090208@ihs.com> Reply-To: belanger@truman.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045073041 2436 80.91.224.249 (12 Feb 2003 18:04:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18j0qk-0007Ie-00 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:39:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j0s3-0005DG-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.newsfirst.net!newshub.more.net!news.more.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:X3EspNe5sXMdoVo5ChX9WhHoGrQ= Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.243.167.195 Original-X-Trace: news.more.net 1045071466 150.243.167.195 (Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:37:46 CST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:37:46 CST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110090 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6594 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6594 Kevin Rodgers 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