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Re: Query about call-process
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Query about call-process |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:41:08 +0300 |
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:24:00 +0000
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Fr., 30. März 2018 um 23:22 Uhr:
>
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:44:25 +0000
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > Though the argument is a bit weird because `make-process' can do exactly
> > that. It would just require changing `call-process' to use a select loop to
> > achieve the same effect.
>
> Once you change call-process to do the same as make-process, what
> would be the difference between those two?
>
> call-process would still wait for the process to finish.
make-process can do that, too.