GNU bug report logs - #78784
[PATCH] Improve the documentation of the internal Lisp_Process->status field

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 78784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, steven <at> stebalien.com
Subject: bug#78784: [PATCH] Improve the documentation of the internal Lisp_Process->status field
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:04:53 +0300

> Cc: 78784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 23:19:24 -0400
> 
>   > 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.

I think it's a bug in the documentation, because someone looked at
what process-status can report and concluded (incorrectly) that the
same values are held internally in the process object.

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