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: Committed initial (system* "foo" "bar") code. Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:17:04 +1000 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d6bm8tj3.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <87y8uc3tyz.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069374866 8546 80.91.224.253 (21 Nov 2003 00:34:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:34:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 01:34:24 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 1AMzFg-0004NV-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:34:24 +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 1AN05E-0001Uz-JZ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:27:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMzze-0008Rp-5x for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:21:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMzxw-0007m0-BM for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:20:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.36] (helo=snoopy.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AMzwe-0007D3-7A for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:18:48 -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 hAL0HLi0028312 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:17:21 +1100 Original-Received: from localhost (ppp76.dyn228.pacific.net.au [203.143.228.76]) by mongrel.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id hAL0FeMX032398 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:15:41 +1100 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMyyv-0000oD-00; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:17:05 +1000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <87y8uc3tyz.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:54:12 -0600") 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:3079 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3079 Rob Browning writes: > > The current version is careful to allocate the args before the fork, > and follows the libc and perl convention of blocking SIGINT and > SIGQUIT For reference, what posix says on the subject can be found at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/system.html > then make fixes as we figure out what else we need. SCM_SYSERROR in the child will want to go I think, due to the way gtk uses atexit, as discussed. _exit(127) might be a good idea until a pipe to get the error back to the parent is introduced. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel