From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar")) Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:25:06 +1000 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <873cd99ei5.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <87ad7l9i8h.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87u15qpjwk.fsf@zip.com.au> <877k2mgdjs.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87d6cde1tr.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87oevxb1uy.fsf@zip.com.au> <87znfh9l6v.fsf@zip.com.au> <87vfq59iyf.fsf@zip.com.au> <877k2l9g4c.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067642923 29905 80.91.224.253 (31 Oct 2003 23:28:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:28:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 01 00:28:41 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFih7-0007Pe-00 for ; Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:28:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFig3-0001pp-Mz for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFieL-0001La-Ui for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:25:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFidp-0001AV-Fu for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:25:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.36] (helo=snoopy.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFido-00019V-Iz for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mongrel.pacific.net.au (mongrel.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.107]) by snoopy.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id h9VNPEV0002425 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:25:14 +1100 Original-Received: from localhost (ppp115.dyn228.pacific.net.au [203.143.228.115]) by mongrel.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id h9VNOnDJ030778 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:24:50 +1100 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFidf-0000it-00; Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:25:07 +1000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Paul Jarc's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:59:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2957 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2957 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > > True, but is it worth the effort? What's the benefit supposed to be? Only what you said about gc'ed port closing doing something the child has no business touching. > (signal handlers, maybe) An ever present danger no doubt. (They go via asyncs don't they? Maybe call-with-blocked-asyncs around the fork.) I guess some of these matters (if they're really problems) should be outlined in the docs for primitive-fork. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel