Re: Checking Process Status

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jay Belanger wrote:

> Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> writes:
> > CarlC wrote:
> > > Understood. My concern is that this routine is going to possibly open a new
> > > buffer, and change point. I didn't want the user to wander around during the
> > > compile and then have emacs zap him a new screen. I will take your advice
> > > into consideration.
> > Then force M-x compile to run the command synchronously:
> >
> > (fmakunbound 'start-process)
>
> If I try that here (not with M-x compile), I get the message
> "Multi-processing is not supported for this system"
> (RedHat 8.0 with CVS emacs)


That is one of the undesirable consequences I alluded to.


> I have problem slightly similar to CarlC's, though.
> I need a program to stop at a certain point, and wait until a
> comint-process gives some output, and then and only then continue.
> (Also, the user shouldn't be able to move the point...)
> I thought accept-process-output would do that, but that doesn't seem
> to work.  What should work?

Is a nil TIMEOUT interpreted by accept-process-output as 0 or infinity?  If
it's 0, try specifying a really large value (like most-positive-fixnum), or
calling it in a loop.

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