Arguments: &key name reset-action run-reasons arrest-reasons priority quantum resume-hook suspend-hook initial-bindings run-immediately
This function returns a new process object, but does nothing about
making it runnable. name must be a string. Its
default value is "Anonymous". The default value of
quantum is 2 and of priority
is 0. run-reasons and
arrest-reasons are both lists of Lisp
objects. They default to nil (that is, the
empty list). The effect of these lists being empty or not is
described in multiprocessing.htm. The process can
run only if the arrest-reasons list is empty, and
the run-reasons list is not empty.
reset-action defaults to nil. If it is set to t, the
process will restart if it is reset or ever completes; that is, it
will once again apply its initial function to its initial
arguments. Otherwise, the process will be killed when it
completes.
Earlier versions of the Allegro CL documentation said that make-process accepted a property-list keyword argument. In fact it does not. However, property lists for processes are supported and process-property-list accesses them. They can be modified in the usual property list way with getf and setf of getf and that function.
The initial-bindings, resume-hook, and suspend-hook
arguments all default to nil and initialize the corresponding slot values of
the process object. The meanings of these slots are explained in
multiprocessing.htm.
The stack-allocation argument is only used in the :os-threads model of multiprocessing. It specifies the size to request from the OS for the thread associated with the new process. The default value is to copy the size used for the process in which the process-creating function (i.e. make-process or something that calls make-process) is running. A process's soft limit is set to a default value when the process starts. This value is 80% of the hard limit or 4 megabytes, whichever is less.
See multiprocessing.htm for general information on multiprocessing in Allegro CL.
The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.
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Created 2000.10.5.