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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.lisp.manual
Subject: process status
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Date: 24 Apr 89 05:59:46 GMT
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Ugh ... ugh, ugh, ugh ...

I just went through two hours of trying to figure out how come my
process sentinel wasn't working.  For some reason (probably lack of
sleep and this bump I have on my head ...) I didn't just put in a
simple (message "called with stat %s" stat); when I finally did I
felt a bit foolish for not having done it sooner.  I also felt a bit
misled :-/

I was reading out of an older version of the manual, but I check the
recently announced manual which I installed in the Info tree here and
found it also slightly inaccurate.  I had been testing for (eq stat 'exit)
when in reality the processes were returning 'finished.  I don't know
if they ever will return 'exit, but the manual surely never mentions
'finished anywhere that I could find.

Perhaps it is my version or something, so here it is:
GNU Emacs 18.53.2 of Tue Apr 11 1989 on imagine.pawl.rpi.edu (berkeley-unix)

By the way, before this thing goes to print are the "(intro!!)"
sections going to be expanded a little?

Dave
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