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/* Definitions for asynchronous process control in GNU Emacs.
   Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
                 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This file is part of GNU Emacs.

GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

#ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
#include <sys/types.h>
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
#include <unistd.h>
#endif

/* This structure records information about a subprocess
   or network connection.

   Every field in this structure except for the first two
   must be a Lisp_Object, for GC's sake.  */

struct Lisp_Process
  {
    EMACS_UINT size;
    struct Lisp_Vector *v_next;
    /* Name of subprocess terminal.  */
    Lisp_Object tty_name;
    /* Name of this process */
    Lisp_Object name;
    /* List of command arguments that this process was run with.
       Is set to t for a stopped network process; nil otherwise. */
    Lisp_Object command;
    /* (funcall FILTER PROC STRING)  (if FILTER is non-nil)
       to dispose of a bunch of chars from the process all at once */
    Lisp_Object filter;
    /* (funcall SENTINEL PROCESS) when process state changes */
    Lisp_Object sentinel;
    /* (funcall LOG SERVER CLIENT MESSAGE) when a server process
       accepts a connection from a client.  */
    Lisp_Object log;
    /* Buffer that output is going to */
    Lisp_Object buffer;
    /* t if this is a real child process.  For a network or serial
       connection, it is a plist based on the arguments to
       make-network-process or make-serial-process.  */
    Lisp_Object childp;
    /* Plist for programs to keep per-process state information, parameters, etc.  */
    Lisp_Object plist;
    /* Symbol indicating the type of process: real, network, serial  */
    Lisp_Object type;
    /* Marker set to end of last buffer-inserted output from this process */
    Lisp_Object mark;
    /* Symbol indicating status of process.
       This may be a symbol: run, open, or closed.
       Or it may be a list, whose car is stop, exit or signal
       and whose cdr is a pair (EXIT_CODE . COREDUMP_FLAG)
       or (SIGNAL_NUMBER . COREDUMP_FLAG).  */
    Lisp_Object status;
    /* Coding-system for decoding the input from this process.  */
    Lisp_Object decode_coding_system;
    /* Working buffer for decoding.  */
    Lisp_Object decoding_buf;
    /* Coding-system for encoding the output to this process.  */
    Lisp_Object encode_coding_system;
    /* Working buffer for encoding.  */
    Lisp_Object encoding_buf;

    /* After this point, there are no Lisp_Objects any more.  */
    /* alloc.c assumes that `pid' is the first such non-Lisp slot.  */

    /* Number of this process.
       allocate_process assumes this is the first non-Lisp_Object field.
       A value 0 is used for pseudo-processes such as network or serial
       connections.  */
    pid_t pid;
    /* Descriptor by which we read from this process */
    int infd;
    /* Descriptor by which we write to this process */
    int outfd;
    /* Event-count of last event in which this process changed status.  */
    int tick;
    /* Event-count of last such event reported.  */
    int update_tick;
    /* Size of carryover in decoding.  */
    int decoding_carryover;
    /* Hysteresis to try to read process output in larger blocks.
       On some systems, e.g. GNU/Linux, Emacs is seen as
       an interactive app also when reading process output, meaning
       that process output can be read in as little as 1 byte at a
       time.  Value is micro-seconds to delay reading output from
       this process.  Range is 0 .. 50000.  */
    int read_output_delay;
    /* Should we delay reading output from this process.
       Initialized from `Vprocess_adaptive_read_buffering'.
       0 = nil, 1 = t, 2 = other.  */
    unsigned int adaptive_read_buffering : 2;
    /* Skip reading this process on next read.  */
    unsigned int read_output_skip : 1;
    /* Non-nil means kill silently if Emacs is exited.
       This is the inverse of the `query-on-exit' flag.  */
    unsigned int kill_without_query : 1;
    /* Non-nil if communicating through a pty.  */
    unsigned int pty_flag : 1;
    /* Flag to set coding-system of the process buffer from the
       coding_system used to decode process output.  */
    unsigned int inherit_coding_system_flag : 1;
    /* Record the process status in the raw form in which it comes from `wait'.
       This is to avoid consing in a signal handler.  The `raw_status_new'
       flag indicates that `raw_status' contains a new status that still
       needs to be synced to `status'.  */
    unsigned int raw_status_new : 1;
    int raw_status;
};

/* Every field in the preceding structure except for the first two
   must be a Lisp_Object, for GC's sake.  */

#define ChannelMask(n) (1<<(n))

/* Indexed by descriptor, gives the process (if any) for that descriptor.  */
extern Lisp_Object chan_process[];

/* Alist of elements (NAME . PROCESS).  */
extern Lisp_Object Vprocess_alist;

/* True if we are about to fork off a synchronous process or if we
   are waiting for it.  */
extern int synch_process_alive;

/* Communicate exit status of sync process to from sigchld_handler
   to Fcall_process.  */

/* Nonzero => this is a string explaining death of synchronous subprocess.  */
extern char *synch_process_death;

/* Nonzero => this is the signal number that terminated the subprocess.  */
extern int synch_process_termsig;

/* If synch_process_death is zero,
   this is exit code of synchronous subprocess.  */
extern int synch_process_retcode;

/* The name of the file open to get a null file, or a data sink.
   MS-DOS, and OS/2 redefine this.  */
#ifndef NULL_DEVICE
#define NULL_DEVICE "/dev/null"
#endif

/* Nonzero means don't run process sentinels.  This is used
   when exiting.  */
extern int inhibit_sentinels;

extern Lisp_Object Qeuid, Qegid, Qcomm, Qstate, Qppid, Qpgrp, Qsess, Qttname;
extern Lisp_Object Qminflt, Qmajflt, Qcminflt, Qcmajflt, Qutime, Qstime;
extern Lisp_Object Qcutime, Qpri, Qnice, Qthcount, Qstart, Qvsize, Qrss, Qargs;
extern Lisp_Object Quser, Qgroup, Qetime, Qpcpu, Qpmem, Qtpgid, Qcstime;

extern Lisp_Object list_system_processes (void);
extern Lisp_Object system_process_attributes (Lisp_Object);

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