From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Query about call-process Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:41:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83fu4g8zfv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87po3l1jv6.fsf@gmail.com> <83h8ox8djw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522481989 12023 195.159.176.226 (31 Mar 2018 07:39:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 07:39:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 31 09:39:45 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f2B6z-0002ta-JY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:39:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2B8y-0004zw-5W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36473) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2B8T-0004zc-Ev for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2B8P-00014O-Eb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2B8P-000141-At for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2721 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f2B8O-0006wi-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:41:09 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:24:00 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116302 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:24:00 +0000 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii schrieb am Fr., 30. März 2018 um 23:22 Uhr: > > > From: Philipp Stephani > > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:44:25 +0000 > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs > > > > 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.