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eeide@cs.utah.edu (Eric Eide) writes:
 > I have written a process-in-a-buffer mode that uses a filter to handle output
 > from the inferior process.  My question is: if I want to be sure not to lose
 > process output, do I need to set inhibit-quit to T inside the filter?  Is a
 > filter "quitable"?
 > 
 > I know that setting inhibit-quit to T would be a safe thing; I just want to
 > know if it's necessary.

It is necessary.  It's easy to test this.  Just make your process
output filter go into a tight loop, e.g. (while t).  Once the
filter kicks in you won't be able to do anything but type C-g.
C-g will quit the loop.