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From: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar"))
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:49:59 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSU.4.44.0310311449220.277-100000@eskimo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oevxb1uy.fsf@zip.com.au>

> When exiting due to an exec failure, you generally don't want to run
> atexit handlers or flush stdio buffers.  Those things of course are
> not done if the exec succeeds.

This is true for many forks - you don't want the child cleaning up file
handles that are in use by the parent.   For example, closing connections
to databases et al.

Jon



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-31 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-28 21:15 Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar")) Rob Browning
2003-10-28 22:13 ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-29  7:58 ` tomas
2003-10-29 13:58 ` Greg Troxel
2003-10-29 14:04   ` Rob Browning
2003-10-29 16:15     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-29 18:13       ` Rob Browning
2003-10-29 22:32         ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-30  1:41         ` Alex Shinn
2003-10-30 10:31           ` tomas
2003-10-30 20:09   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31  5:51     ` Rob Browning
2003-10-31 17:05       ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 17:47         ` Rob Browning
2003-10-31 17:59           ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 20:15             ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 20:31               ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 21:00                 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 21:18                   ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 21:48                     ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 22:10                       ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 22:26                         ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 22:42                           ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 22:50                         ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 22:59                           ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 23:25                             ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 23:34                               ` Paul Jarc
2003-11-02 21:13                                 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-11-10 19:25                                   ` Paul Jarc
2003-12-16 23:45                                     ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 22:49               ` Jonathan Bartlett [this message]
2003-10-31 20:19       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 20:37         ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 21:02           ` Rob Browning

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