Function

Summary

Returns the state of a process.

Package

mp

Signature

process-whostate process => reason

Arguments

process

A process.

Values

reason

A string.

Description

The function process-whostate returns a string describing the state of the process.

Depending on the state of process, reason can be:

• "Dead"
• "Stopped"
• "Sleeping"
• "Running"
• "Running (preempted)"

reason can also be the wait-reason of the process, as passed to wait-processing-events, process-wait, mailbox-read and so on.

reason can also be a string containing the run-reasons, as set by (setf process-run-reasons).

See also

wait-processing-events
process-wait
process-run-reasons