Starting the syntax check process

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5.6 Starting the syntax check process

The command line (command name and the list of arguments) for launching a process is returned by the initialization function. Flymake then just calls start-process to start an asynchronous process and configures process filter and sentinel which is used for processing the output of the syntax check tool.