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Re: "system-process-attributes" function name
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: "system-process-attributes" function name |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:21:25 +0200 |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:40:06 +0900
>
> I just noticed this new function (from a msg by Thierry Volpiatto), and
> wonder -- why the funny prefix "system-"?
Because unfortunately the "process-" prefix is used by many Emacs
primitives that only handle Emacs subprocesses, not just any arbitrary
process running on the machine.
I agree that it is slightly awkward, but I thought confusing that with
Emacs subprocess support was a greater evil, and at least Roland
Winker, the author of proced.el, which is the primary user of these
new primitives, suggested the same names.
> [I haven't looked at the other "system-process" functions, but
> a similar comment might apply to them.]
There's only one more: list-system-processes.