Re: Checking Process Status

[Kevin Rodgers]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> > Jay Belanger wrote:
> > > 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.

I thought that when Jay wrote "not with M-x compile", he meant that some other
package that _requires_ asynchronous subprocess support had signalled the error.

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