bug#51177: 29.0.50; stop-process on pipes

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

> We could say that reading the process's output after the process has
> terminated is an unreasonable request.

I'm not sure I quite understand -- all the output from the process
should be delivered (to the filter function) before Emacs marks the
process as terminated, I think?

> However, I would like to propose
> that, in status_notify, the sentinel function should be called before
> closing the file descriptors.  That way, the sentinel can read the
> buffered output as suggested in the example.

A sentinel usually doesn't read anything...

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