Function

Summary

Terminates a server.

Package

comm

Signature

server-terminate &optional process => result

Arguments

process

A mp:process object or nil.

Values

result

A boolean.

Description

The function server-terminate terminates a server process.

If process is a process object it must be the result of a call to start-up-server. server-terminate terminates it, and frees all the associated resources.

If process is nil or is not supplied, the call to server-terminate must be inside the scope of the process that was created by start-up-server, which can by either function or announce that you passed to start-up-server. server-terminate returns t in this case, and the actual termination happens after your function (that is, function or announce) returns.

server-terminate returns t if the server was still active when it was called, otherwise it returns nil. It can be called repeatedly on the same server, and can be used as a predicate to check whether the server really went away.

Notes

In LispWorks 6.0 and earlier versions, process-kill is the way to terminate servers. This is deprecated, because it may leave some value in an invalid state.

See also

start-up-server