Function

Summary

Returns a process corresponding to a supplied designator.

Package

mp

Signature

get-process process-designator => process

Arguments

process-designator

A mp:process, a string, a stack-group, a function, a symbol or a fixnum.

Values

process

A mp:process.

Description

The function get-process returns a process according to the supplied process-designator, which is interpreted as follows:

mp:process

Return it.

A string

Find the first process (highest priority) with matching name. Process names are compared by string=.

A stack-group

Return the process of the stack-group.

A function

Return the first process that has process-designator as its function (that is, the third argument of process-run-function).

A symbol

First search for a process using the symbol name as a string, and (if that fails) then search using the symbol as a function.

A fixnum

Find a process for which process-designator is its unique id. The unique id of the current process can be found by (sys:current-thread-unique-id).

result is nil if multiprocessing is off.

See also

find-process-from-name