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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.



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