Re: call-process should not block process filters from running

[Po Lu]

sbaugh@catern.com writes:

> (As a tangent, it's kind of sad that this call-process API has ever
> caused Emacs to block/stop running Lisp - subprocesses are inherently
> concurrent!  They are what we use if we want Emacs to *not* block.  I
> understand that that's complex, but it's just kind of ironic.)

You are thinking of asynchronous subprocesses and not subprocesses
themselves.  When you run a subprocess from /bin/sh (not jsh):

#!/bin/sh

sleep 10

do you expect `sleep' to execute without suspending the parent shell?