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18.2 Process control

The Processes menu contains commands that let you control the execution of processes in the environment. These same commands are available using the toolbar buttons at the top of the process browser window or by using the right mouse button popup menu (use the left mouse button to select a process and then the right mouse button to get a popup menu.) Process commands act on the process that has been selected in the main area. You can select a process by clicking on the line in the main area that contains the process name and status information.

Choose Processes > Break to break the current process. This breaks Lisp and gives you the opportunity to follow any of the normal debugger restarts.

Choose Processes > Kill to kill the selected process.

Choose Processes > Stop to stop the selected process. The process can be started again by choosing Processes > Unstop , and thus is similar to the use of Ctrl-Z in a UNIX session.

Choose Processes > Unstop to restart a process which has been stopped using Processes > Stop . This is similar to the use of the UNIX command fg .

Choose Process > Inspect to call up a Common LispWorks inspector to inspect the selected process. See The Inspector for more information on inspecting objects and processes.

Process > Break and then choosing Debug on the consequent notifier.

Choose Processes > Debug to debug the current process.


Common LispWorks User Guide - 14 Dec 2001

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