13 The MP Package

process-send

Function

Summary

Sends an object to the mailbox of a given process.

Package

mp

Signature

process-send process thing &key change-priority =>

Arguments

process: A process
object: An object
change-priority: A fixnum,nil,t, or:default

Values

None

Description

Theprocess-send function queues object in the mailbox of the given process. If change-priority, which has a default value of:default, is non-nil, it controls how the priority of that process is calculated as follows:

fixnum -- use the value of change-priority as the new priority.
t -- set the priority to the interactive priority.
:default -- set the priority to the normal running priority.

See also

mailbox-reader-process
mailbox-send