11 The MP Package

This chapter describes symbols available in the MP package, giving you access to the multiprocessing capabilities of LispWorks. You should use this chapter in conjunction with the relevant chapter in the LispWorks User Guide .

change-process-priority

claim-lock

create-simple-process

*current-process*

debug-other-process

*default-process-priority*

*default-simple-process-priority*

ensure-process-cleanup

find-process-from-name

initialize-multiprocessing

*initial-processes*

list-all-processes

lock-name

lock-owner

mailbox-empty-p

mailbox-peek

mailbox-read

mailbox-reader-process

mailbox-send

make-lock

make-mailbox

make-named-timer

make-timer

map-all-processes

map-all-processes-backtrace

map-process-backtrace

map-processes

notice-fd

process-alive-p

process-allow-scheduling

process-arrest-reasons

process-break

*process-initial-bindings*

process-interrupt

process-kill

process-lock

process-mailbox

process-name

process-p

process-plist

process-priority

process-reset

process-run-function

process-run-reasons

process-send

process-unlock

process-wait

process-wait-function

process-wait-with-timeout

ps

release-lock

schedule-timer

schedule-timer-milliseconds

schedule-timer-relative

schedule-timer-relative-milliseconds

simple-process-p

timer-expired-p

timer-name

unnotice-fd

unschedule-timer

with-lock

without-interrupts

without-preemption

yield