Rewrote completely for better accuracy.
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1 /* Definitions for asynchronous process control in GNU Emacs.
2 Copyright (C) 1985, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
6 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 any later version.
11 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
18 the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
22 * Structure records pertinent information about open channels.
23 * There is one channel associated with each process.
26 struct Lisp_Process
28 EMACS_INT size;
29 struct Lisp_Vector *v_next;
30 /* Descriptor by which we read from this process */
31 Lisp_Object infd;
32 /* Descriptor by which we write to this process */
33 Lisp_Object outfd;
34 /* Descriptor for the tty which this process is using.
35 nil if we didn't record it (on some systems, there's no need). */
36 Lisp_Object subtty;
37 /* Name of subprocess terminal. */
38 Lisp_Object tty_name;
39 /* Name of this process */
40 Lisp_Object name;
41 /* List of command arguments that this process was run with */
42 Lisp_Object command;
43 /* (funcall FILTER PROC STRING) (if FILTER is non-nil)
44 to dispose of a bunch of chars from the process all at once */
45 Lisp_Object filter;
46 /* (funcall SENTINEL PROCESS) when process state changes */
47 Lisp_Object sentinel;
48 /* Buffer that output is going to */
49 Lisp_Object buffer;
50 /* Number of this process */
51 Lisp_Object pid;
52 /* Non-nil if this is really a command channel */
53 Lisp_Object command_channel_p;
54 /* Non-nil if this is really a child process */
55 Lisp_Object childp;
56 /* Marker set to end of last buffer-inserted output from this process */
57 Lisp_Object mark;
58 /* Non-nil means kill silently if Emacs is exited. */
59 Lisp_Object kill_without_query;
60 /* Record the process status in the raw form in which it comes from `wait'.
61 This is to avoid consing in a signal handler. */
62 Lisp_Object raw_status_low;
63 Lisp_Object raw_status_high;
64 /* Symbol indicating status of process.
65 This may be a symbol: run, open, or closed.
66 Or it may be a list, whose car is stop, exit or signal
67 and whose cdr is a pair (EXIT_CODE . COREDUMP_FLAG)
68 or (SIGNAL_NUMBER . COREDUMP_FLAG). */
69 Lisp_Object status;
70 /* Non-nil if communicating through a pty. */
71 Lisp_Object pty_flag;
72 /* Event-count of last event in which this process changed status. */
73 Lisp_Object tick;
74 /* Event-count of last such event reported. */
75 Lisp_Object update_tick;
78 #define ChannelMask(n) (1<<(n))
80 /* Indexed by descriptor, gives the process (if any) for that descriptor. */
81 extern Lisp_Object chan_process[];
83 /* Alist of elements (NAME . PROCESS). */
84 extern Lisp_Object Vprocess_alist;
86 /* True iff we are about to fork off a synchronous process or if we
87 are waiting for it. */
88 extern int synch_process_alive;
90 /* Communicate exit status of synch process to from sigchld_handler
91 to Fcall_process. */
92 extern int synch_process_retcode;
93 extern char *synch_process_death;
95 /* Nonzero => this is a string explaining death of synchronous subprocess. */
96 extern char *synch_process_death;
98 /* If synch_process_death is zero,
99 this is exit code of synchronous subprocess. */
100 extern int synch_process_retcode;
102 /* The name of the file open to get a null file, or a data sink.
103 VMS, MS-DOS, and OS/2 redefine this. */
104 #ifndef NULL_DEVICE
105 #define NULL_DEVICE "/dev/null"
106 #endif
108 /* A string listing the possible suffixes used for executable files,
109 separated by colons. VMS, MS-DOS, and OS/2 redefine this. */
110 #ifndef EXEC_SUFFIXES
111 #define EXEC_SUFFIXES ""
112 #endif