From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Bartlett Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar")) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:49:59 -0800 (PST) Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87oevxb1uy.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 1067640872 26555 80.91.224.253 (31 Oct 2003 22:54:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 23:54:29 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 1AFiA1-0005xd-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:54:29 +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 1AFi7y-0003sa-Mu for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFi6l-0003dV-KT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:51:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFi6F-0003Vt-Lo for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [204.122.16.48] (helo=mx1.eskimo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFi6F-0003NA-4r for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:50:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eskimo.com (johnnyb@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09049; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:49:59 -0800 Original-Received: from localhost (johnnyb@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA00635; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:49:59 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: eskimo.com: johnnyb owned process doing -bs Original-To: Kevin Ryde In-Reply-To: <87oevxb1uy.fsf@zip.com.au> 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:2955 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2955 > 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel