Re: Teaching emacsclient to act as a pager, and more

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 10:14:33 -0400
> 
> >From c2ff58ce764801101fb4c37fd3963f99cb8652a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Spencer Baugh <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 00:40:28 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 1/5] process: add features for direct use of FDs
> 
> - A new keyword argument for make-network-process, :ancillary. When
> non-nil, Emacs will check for ancillary data when reading from the
> network process. If any is found, it is passed as an additional argument
> to the process filter function. At the moment, this only supports
> reading passed file descriptors out of ancillary data.
> This is inherited by the children of server processes.
> 
> - A new Lisp function make-fd-process, which accepts keyword arguments
> exactly like make-pipe-process, but also accepts :infd and :outfd, which
> take Lisp integers which should be file descriptors that can be read
> from and written to, respectively.

Cannot this be handled by the existing make-pipe-process?  If not, why
not?

Thanks.