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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
> But I'm wondering whether to make it a totally general library, that
> would be, like:
>
> (defun concurrent (concurrency function callback callback-arguments)
>   ...)

Maybe the transaction queue library (tq.el, ships with Emacs) could help
you with this?  It's very small and simple; EMMS uses it to
asynchronously communicate with the music player daemon (mpd), and it
works quite well (debugging becomes a nightmare, though).

-David