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From: Buehring@Intellection.COM (Walt Buehring)
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Subject: Re: process exit status
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Date: 5 Jun 91 05:59:59 GMT
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In-Reply-To: manderso@mpr.ca's message of 4 Jun 91 17:49:18 GMT

) Buehring@Intellection.COM writes:
) >I need the process exit status before the elisp can continue with
) 
) How about...
) 
) process-exit-status:
) Return the exit status of PROCESS or the signal number that killed it.
) If PROCESS has not yet exited or died, return 0.

I'm aware of the function -- using it requires an argument which is a process
object, which you never get access to (to my knowledge) when using
'call-process'.  I wanted to use 'call-process' because it's many times
simpler than futzing with 'start-process' and all that jazz.  

Oh well, there appears to be no alternative to using 'start-process' when you
want the exit status -- so much for keeping my little elisp function nice and
simple.  :-(


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