From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Query about call-process
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:41:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fu4g8zfv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkTESoVYc0tejzSVYB87tzDJhP-PNp03vBgFTDW7L2O1cg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:24:00 +0000)
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:24:00 +0000
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Fr., 30. März 2018 um 23:22 Uhr:
>
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:44:25 +0000
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > Though the argument is a bit weird because `make-process' can do exactly
> > that. It would just require changing `call-process' to use a select loop to
> > achieve the same effect.
>
> Once you change call-process to do the same as make-process, what
> would be the difference between those two?
>
> call-process would still wait for the process to finish.
make-process can do that, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-31 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-30 18:47 Query about call-process Narendra Joshi
2018-03-30 19:44 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-03-30 21:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-30 21:24 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-03-31 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-04-01 17:21 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-04-01 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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