From: Nicolas Graner <nicolas@graner.name>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sending data to an asynchronous process
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2021 01:03:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ft088f1g.fsf@graner.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zgygebw3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 02 Apr 2021 22:15:24 +0300)
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote on 2021-04-02 22:15:
> call-process-region writes the data to a temporary file, and then
> invokes the subprocess. So if you do the same "by hand" and then call
> start-process, you will have the best of all worlds. IOW, the
> temporary file solution you didn't like is exactly what
> call-process-region does under the hood, and so efficiency is not the
> issue here. As for cleaning up the temporary files, that isn't really
> a problem, is it?
Great, that's exactly the information I needed. I've rewritten the code
using a temporary file and it works like a charm.
Many thanks!
Nicolas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-02 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-02 10:20 sending data to an asynchronous process Nicolas Graner
2021-04-02 16:13 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-02 17:18 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-02 18:35 ` Nicolas Graner
2021-04-02 18:54 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-02 19:10 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-02 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-02 23:03 ` Nicolas Graner [this message]
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