On 18 Dec 2000, Erik Naggum wrote:

> * Raimondas Kiveris
> | I have to use run-shell-command in a multithreaded application.
> | Run-shell-command with :wait t apparently suspends all other 
> | threads and if external process takes significant time to complete
> | the whole application practically hangs. 
> 
>   Why do you need :wait t? 

I do not absolutely need it, just a matter of convenience -- need to 
know external process exit value before proceeding. 


> If you cannot proceed until the child process
>   has finished, it is better to use :wait nil and an :output :stream which
>   you simply drain until it closes, which coincides with termination unless
>   the process is doing really weird things.  You may apply a timeout while
>   "reading" from this stream in the normal way.

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!


	rkv