Subject: Re: bug#78784: [PATCH] Improve the documentation of the internal Lisp_Process->status field

From: Steven Allen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:39:13 -0700

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>   > Contrary to the existing documentation here, the value of this field
>   > cannot be the symbols open or closed. Furthermore, this field is never
>   > set to "stop" for network connections.
>
> This could be considered a bug in the documentation, or a bug in the code.
> To tell which it is, is not automatic.

For network processes, the various status values are by
`process-status`: run -> open, exit -> closed, etc. Here I'm just
updating the internal documentation so contributors aren't confused
about why src/process.c never checks if a process's (internal) status is
open/closed/etc but instead only checks for run/exit/etc.

Effectively, "open" and "closed" are virtual states.