Re: Checking Process Status

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> >>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.

Might as well be a bug in compile.el: sounds like some of its condition 
to run the synchronous path are based on system-type, not on 
start-process being not fboundp.  Perhaps this should be reported as a 
bug.