From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 'make-comint' question Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:43:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878v0not0a.fsf@gmail.com> <87siyuoiri.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375328643 13098 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2013 03:44:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 03:44:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 01 05:44:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4jo3-0007vJ-P9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:44:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4jo3-0004C5-CO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37855) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4jnn-0004Bi-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4jnf-00069c-VG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:43:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4jnf-000690-P6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4jnd-0007h3-O0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:43:37 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-155-237.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.155.237]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:43:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-155-237.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:43:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-155-237.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JWkF55nEbJ2M/Av8zocQIG6egmk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92612 Archived-At: > So this is a use case for `sit-for', I would guess ... sit-for sounds here like a recipe to make the race less likely rather than to eliminate it. As for eliminating the race, the best option is probably to add a process-filter and move the "reinstate config file" to the process-filter, after checking that the process send some output that indicates that it has read the config file (e.g. a prompt of some sort). Stefan