From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar")) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:22 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ad7l9i8h.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87y8v4ywap.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87he1s81g6.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <877k2nykso.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067466895 12175 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 22:34:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Marius Vollmer , Greg Troxel Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 23:34:49 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 1AEytt-00039J-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:34:49 +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 1AEytY-0004P4-KU for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEysc-0003xj-NK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:33:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEys4-0003kE-4x for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:33:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [129.22.104.62] (helo=lewis.CNS.CWRU.Edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEyrz-0003XS-5e for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:51 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.smtp-b.cwru.edu by smtp-b.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) id <0HNJ00A01IJSNF@smtp-b.cwru.edu> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.ITS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.114.26]) by smtp-b.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with SMTP id <0HNJ0091XILZIY@smtp-b.cwru.edu> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 29473 invoked by uid 500); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:32:45 +0000 In-reply-to: <877k2nykso.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> Original-To: Rob Browning Mail-followup-to: Rob Browning , Marius Vollmer , guile-devel@gnu.org, Greg Troxel Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 14 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:2933 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2933 Rob Browning wrote: > So would we want (system* . args) or (system* arg-list)? I like (system* arg-list). > What are guile's argument count limitations? (Suppose the underlying > OS's could be relevant as well...) If the caller exceeds the OS limit, execve will fail, and we'll get a system-error exception, won't we? Or is that not what you're talking about? paul _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel