bug#10483: [PATCH] cperl-mode: Avoid endless loop

[Andreas Schwab]

On Sep 04 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> But the advantage of a loop is that you can do something while you
> wait.  Whereas if you expose waitpid to Lisp, the Lisp program which
> calls it will be parked inside the call, and the entire Emacs session
> will stall.  Or what am I missing?

It doesn't make sense to expose a waitpid-like function to Lisp, as the
Emacs process primitives are already much more elegant.

Andreas.

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