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Re: run emacs in batch mode without a tty


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: run emacs in batch mode without a tty
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 10:37:19 +0300

> From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 18:55:26 -0400
> 
> In batch mode, there's no terminal or redisplay, so there's no main 
> input loop. It just runs the script and exits.
> 
> Running another process isn't compatible with this mode, because 
> processing the process output is also part of that main input loop.

We do run subprocesses, both synchronous and asynchronous, in the
Emacs test suite, which is run entirely in batch mode.  So evidently
there's no incompatibility here.



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