Re: Elisp implementation of list-processes

[Leo]

On 2010-11-30 06:05 +0000, Bob Rogers wrote:
> status_notify is a static function in process.c, used to clean up when
> we find exited processes.  It is unclear to me whether
> redisplay_preserve_echo_area is really necessary.  In any case, a small
> DEFUN would seem to be in order.  Not sure what to call it, though;
> "status_notify" is not very informative.  Perhaps "process-clean-up"?
>
>    The only other question is:  Where should it go?  It is called from
> save-buffers-kill-emacs in files.el (the only other use is in
> lisp/eshell/esh-proc.el), but files.el is already pretty crowded.  On
> the other hand, autoloading it for something so basic might be
> problematic.  Suggestions?

I think it could be moved to process-list.

In a similar scenario: list-buffers and buffer-list, the latter only
returns live buffers.

Cheers,
Leo