Function

Summary

Sends an object to the mailbox of a given process.

Package

mp

Signature

process-send process object &key change-priority =>

Arguments

process

A process

object

An object

change-priority

A fixnum, nil , t , or :default

Values

None.

Description

The process-send function queues object in the mailbox of the given process.

object should be a list of the form ( function . arguments ) . This causes function to be applied to arguments in the process process . (The results of function are discarded.)

If change-priority , which has a default value of :default , is non- nil , it controls how the priority of that process is calculated as follows:

• fixnum -- use the value of change-priority as the new priority.
• t -- set the priority to the interactive priority.
• :default -- set the priority to the normal running priority.

See also

mailbox-reader-process
mailbox-send