Re: master 4d00db5 8/8: Remove compat code from comint.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

>>  Return the (possibly newly created) process buffer."
>> -  (or (fboundp 'start-file-process)
>> -      (error "Multi-processing is not supported for this system"))

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> Perhaps the code here and in the previous commit meant to check for
> (fboundp 'make-process) instead?  start-file-process may always be
> defined, but I don't recall all platforms supporting subprocesses.  Or
> is this check no longer deemed necessary?

Yeah, that makes more sense.  There was an equivalent check in
esh-proc.el that added a lot of code to the non-start-file-process case
that made me wonder, too.

I guess there's still platforms without subprocess support?  DOS?  Or is
that deprecated?  If so, this patch (and the esh-proc.el patch) should
be reverted and the checks changed.

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