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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't print "process finished" into the stderr buffer.
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:13:01 +0300

> 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?



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