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isExternalM2Child -- indicate if this process is a child process or not

Synopsis

Usage:

b=isExternalM2Child()
Outputs:
- b, a Boolean value, true if this process is a child process, and false otherwise

Description

This function indicates whether the currently-running process is a child process as created by the RunExternalM2 package, or not.

See also

RunExternalM2 -- a package to run Macaulay2 code externally and retrieve the result
isExternalM2Parent -- indicate if this process is a parent process or not

For the programmer

The object isExternalM2Child is a function closure.