Re: Checking Process Status

[CarlC]

"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message
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> Save the old value of the process' sentinel, enter your own function
> there, and have that do its work as well as calling the saved
> sentinel.

Thanks for the quick response, David. I guess I need to know why this is the
case. If I can get a process-status, why do I need to modify the compile
sentinel. Does the existing sentinel wrap it up so that I can't access it's
status? This doesn't appear to be the case when I am debugging. I can set a
variable and view its status as "run". If I can do this, why can't I add a
conditional to check this status outside of the sentinel? I just want to
know if the compilation process is running. Thanks, again.