13 The MP Package

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 returnst. This is tested periodically. wait-reason (a string) allows you to find out why a process is waiting.

See also

process-wait-with-timeout