Quick Process Note

[barmar@Think.COM (Barry Margolin)]

    Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 02:09 EDT
    From: kddlab!atr-la.atr.co.jp!myers@uunet.UU.NET (John K. Myers)

    (process:block-process "I'm Blocked" #'true) doesn't work,
    the process never goes to sleep in the first place.

>From the middle of p.8:

    When a process goes blocked and provides a verify-function, the
    verify-function is tested before the process goes blocked.  If it
    returns a non-NIL value the process does not go blocked.

If you want a verify function that will be false just the first time
it's tested, but be true from then on, you could use a closure:

(let ((value nil))
  (process:block-process "I'm blocked"
			 #'(lambda () (prog1 value (setq value t)))))

It's generally not very useful to have such a general verify-function;
it really should verify that the appropriate state has been reached.
This is because you can never be sure why you've received some random
wakeup; for instance, when input becomes available on a stream a wakeup
is sent to the last process that used that stream, and burying a window
sends a wakeup to the process associated with the window.  The purpose
of the verify-function is to distinguish extraneous wakeups from the one
you're actually waiting for.

                                                barmar