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A process is a running instance of a program. Use this tag for how Emacs interacts with programs that it runs (compilers, viewers, network backends, etc.)

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Applying a timeout on call-process/shell-command?

In some cases, when delegating work to an external process, it's useful to set a timeout on the command to prevent Emacs from hanging indefinitely. Unfortunately, the following does not work. … That is, I want the process to be killed automatically if it doesn't finish within a certain number of seconds. Is that possible? …
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