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@c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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-@c 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@setfilename ../../info/processes
@node Processes, Display, Abbrevs, Top
the substrings. It then makes a list of the substrings and returns
it.
-If @var{separators} is omitted or nil, it defaults to @code{"\\s-+"},
-which is a regular expression that matches one or more characters with
-whitespace syntax (@pxref{Syntax Class Table}).
+If @var{separators} is omitted or @code{nil}, it defaults to
+@code{"\\s-+"}, which is a regular expression that matches one or more
+characters with whitespace syntax (@pxref{Syntax Class Table}).
The quoting this function supports is of 2 styles: by enclosing a
whole string in double quotes @code{"@dots{}"}, or by quoting
system to use (@pxref{Process Information}). Otherwise, the coding
system comes from @code{coding-system-for-read}, if that is
non-@code{nil}; or else from the defaulting mechanism (@pxref{Default
-Coding Systems}).
+Coding Systems}). If the text output by a process contains null
+bytes, Emacs by default uses @code{no-conversion} for it; see
+@ref{Lisp and Coding Systems, inhibit-null-byte-detection}, for how to
+control this behavior.
@strong{Warning:} Coding systems such as @code{undecided} which
determine the coding system from the data do not work entirely
processing system calls. The corresponding @var{value} is in the same
format as for @code{utime}.
+@item time
+The sum of @code{utime} and @code{stime}. The corresponding
+@var{value} is in the same format as for @code{utime}.
+
@item cutime
@itemx cstime
-Like @code{utime} and @code{stime}, but includes the times of all the
-child processes of the given process.
+@itemx ctime
+Like @code{utime}, @code{stime}, and @code{time}, but include the
+times of all the child processes of the given process.
@item pri
The numerical priority of the process.
text at the end of the entire answer, but nothing before; that's how
@code{tq-enqueue} determines where the answer ends.
-If the argument @var{delay-question} is non-nil, delay sending this
-question until the process has finished replying to any previous
+If the argument @var{delay-question} is non-@code{nil}, delay sending
+this question until the process has finished replying to any previous
questions. This produces more reliable results with some processes.
The return value of @code{tq-enqueue} itself is not meaningful.
all other arguments and does not configure the port. This may be
useful for special serial ports such as Bluetooth-to-serial converters
which can only be configured through AT commands sent through the
-connection. You can use the value of @code{nil} for @var{speed} only
-for connections that are already open by a previous call to
+connection. The value of @code{nil} for @var{speed} is valid only for
+connections that were already opened by a previous call to
@code{make-serial-process} or @code{serial-term}.
@item :bytesize @var{bytesize}