bug#10483: [PATCH] cperl-mode: Avoid endless loop

[Andreas Schwab]

On Sep 04 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> On Sep 04 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>>
>>> waitpid waits until a process changes status, doesn't it?  In Emacs Lisp
>>> we have to write a loop over `process-status', which adds latency and
>>> just doesn't seem very elegant.
>>
>> In Emacs you use accept-process-output and a process sentinel.
>
> Which isn't very elegant, either.

You asked for the primitives.  There is a lot of tooling around.

Andreas.

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