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process-wait

Function
Summary

Suspend the current process until certain conditions are true.

Package

mp

Signature

process-wait wait-reason wait-function &rest wait-arguments =>

Arguments

wait-reason

A reason that the process is waiting. This is a string.

wait-function

A function to test.

wait-arguments

The arguments to apply to wait-function .

Values

None.

Description

This function suspends the current Lisp process until the predicate wait-function applied to wait-arguments returns t . This is tested periodically. wait-reason (a string) allows you to find out why a process is waiting.

See also

process-wait-with-timeout


LispWorks Reference Manual (Windows version) - 14 Dec 2001

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