From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Checking Process Status Date: 03 Feb 2003 23:29:52 +0100 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044311720 19290 80.91.224.249 (3 Feb 2003 22:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:35:20 +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 18fpBI-00050H-00 for ; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 23:35:12 +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 18fpBP-0008EO-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:35:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1044311393 03 31205 UJadEPnXSLAZiB 030203 22:29:53 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109750 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:6262 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6262 "CarlC" writes: > "David Kastrup" wrote in message > news:x5wukhv20i.fsf@lola.goethe.zz... > > Save the old value of the process' sentinel, enter your own function > > there, and have that do its work as well as calling the saved > > sentinel. > > Thanks for the quick response, David. I guess I need to know why > this is the case. If I can get a process-status, why do I need to > modify the compile sentinel. Does the existing sentinel wrap it up > so that I can't access it's status? This doesn't appear to be the > case when I am debugging. I can set a variable and view its status > as "run". If I can do this, why can't I add a conditional to check > this status outside of the sentinel? I just want to know if the > compilation process is running. Thanks, again. Your code programmed a busy wait. That's ugly, butt-ugly. Instead just let your code be run when the process has finished. Anyhow, if at all, you would need to compare to symbols 'run and 'exit, not strings. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum