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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1996-07-23 15:35:12 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1996-07-23 15:35:12 +0000
commit1cb3939ad739714bbcb601484263883d1d2e1c24 (patch)
treeecb533b2f308a18d189a0327a4d6b5de20ee25c7 /lispref
parentdb2705c47106808cf02af1b99fa517bf5a3f6202 (diff)
downloademacs-1cb3939ad739714bbcb601484263883d1d2e1c24.tar.gz
Explain how deletion of process doesn't affect process mark.
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@@ -432,7 +432,9 @@ Information}).
subprocess, and removes it from the list of active processes. It sends
a signal to the subprocess to make the subprocess terminate, but this is
not guaranteed to happen immediately. The process object itself
-continues to exist as long as other Lisp objects point to it.
+continues to exist as long as other Lisp objects point to it. The
+process mark continues to point to the same place as before (usually
+into a buffer where output from the process was being inserted).
You can delete a process explicitly at any time. Processes are
deleted automatically after they terminate, but not necessarily right