Most Lisp implementations provide some form of multi-processing. CLIM provides a set of functions that implement a uniform interface to the multi-processing functionality.
make-process function &key name
Summary: Creates a process named name. The new process will evaluate the function function. On systems that do not support multi-processing, make-process will signal an error.
destroy-process process
Summary: Terminates the process process. process is an object returned by make-process.
Summary: Returns the currently running process, which will be the same kind of object as would be returned by make-process.
Summary: Returns a sequence of all of the processes.
process-wait reason predicate
Summary: Causes the current process to wait until predicate returns t. reason is a string or symbol that gives an explanation for the wait. On systems that do not support multi-processing, process-wait will loop until predicate returns t.
process-wait-with-timeout Function
process-wait-with-timeout reason timeout predicate
Summary: Causes the current process to wait until predicate returns t or the number of seconds specified by timeout has elapsed. reason is a string or symbol that gives an explanation for the wait. On systems that do not support multi-processing, process-wait-with-timeout loops until predicate returns t or the timeout elapses.
Summary: Allows other processes to run. On systems that do not support multi-processing, this does nothing.
process-interrupt process function
Summary: Interrupts the process process and causes it to evaluate the function function. On systems that do not support multi-processing, this is equivalent to funcall'ing function.
without-scheduling &body body
Summary: Evaluates body in a context that is guaranteed to be free from interruption by other processes. On systems that do not support multi-processing, without-scheduling is equivalent to progn.
CLIM 2.0 User Guide - 01 Dec 2021 19:39:02