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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:16:18 -0400
> 
> > Cannot this be handled by the existing make-pipe-process?  If not, why
> > not?
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> First off, make-fd-process is only an exact clone of make-pipe-process
> at the moment because that was the fastest way to get something
> working. Still, they are quite similar.
> 
> But make-pipe-process makes a process object backed by a
> pipe. make-fd-process makes a process object backed by arbitrary file
> descriptors.

Looking at your patches, it seemed to me that you indeed need a pipe,
no?

> I don't think it would be a good API to add :infd and :outfd arguments
> to make-pipe-process.

Why do you need to add them, a pipe already has 2 descriptors
available.