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Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer.


From: Stephen Leake
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer.
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 23:14:39 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (windows-nt)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:21:40 +0000
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>>  > * src/process.c (syms_of_process): Add 'ignore' symbol.
>>  > (Fmake_process): Use it as sentinel for the standard error pipe
>>  > process.
>> 
>>  Why would we want that, and by default on top of that?  Please give at
>>  least some rationale behind this change.
>> 
>> Neither the manual not the docstring for `make-process' specify that
>> Emacs prints "Process foo stderr
>> finished" at the end of the standard error buffer, so that message
>> shouldn't be printed.
>
> That assumes that the documentation is correct and the code isn't; it
> could be the other way around.
>
> But I'm guessing that the current behavior was unexpected for some
> reason, and that's why you looked in the documentation.  If the guess
> is correct, could you describe why it was unexpected/unwanted?

I had to work around that behavior as well, in DVC (Emacs front end for
some CM tools). When you are parsing the output of a process, that
string is unexpected.

-- 
-- Stephe



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