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Process.spawn/poll/kill/free - non-blocking child processes with no shell: posix_spawn on macOS (process.ll), CreateProcessW with MSVC-quoted arguments and no console window on Windows (process_win.ll), linked only when a program uses Process.*. Http.save_to streams a response body into a file (NSURLSession with a run-time delegate class on macOS, the WinHTTP read loop on Windows); Http.received / Http.expected report progress while it is pending. Freeing a pending request cancels it and parks the slot until the worker has finished. App.window_hide / App.window_show take the game's window off the screen and back without closing it; the run goes on while hidden. Docs, examples, tests and a changeset. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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id: process-poll
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name: Process.poll
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category: process
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kind: namespace-method
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tokens: Process.poll
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sig: Process.poll(handle) -> int
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tip: -1 while running, else the exit code.
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order: 1
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ns: Process
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member: poll
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---
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Returns <code>-1</code> while the child is still running and its exit code once it has ended; it never waits. The code is kept, so asking again gives the same answer until <a href="process-free.html"><code>Process.free</code></a>.
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A child ended by a signal (macOS) answers <code>128</code> plus the signal number, as a shell reports it — <code>137</code> after <a href="process-kill.html"><code>Process.kill</code></a>, on both platforms. On Windows the code is the child's DWORD exit code as an <code>int</code>, so a crash such as <code>0xC0000005</code> arrives as a negative number (test for <code>!= 0</code>, not <code>> 0</code>); a code of <code>0xFFFFFFFF</code> is reported as <code>255</code> so that <code>-1</code> always means "still running". A handle that is not one answers <code>255</code>.
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```ludic
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program Demo {
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var game: int = -1
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handler Watch phase Update {
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if game >= 0 {
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let code = Process.poll(handle: game)
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if code >= 0 or code < -1 {
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if code != 0 { print("the game crashed") }
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Process.free(handle: game)
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game = -1
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}
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}
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}
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}
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```
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