Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> On Sat 21 Jan 2017 12:55, Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> However, when running the external program "yes" in guile,
>>
>>   $ guile -c '(system* "yes")'
>>
>> We cannot terminate the process by pressing C-c,
>
> Indeed I can reproduce this!
>
>> but we can suspend it by pressing C-z.
>
> I believe the C-z is handled by the shell, not Guile; AFAIU.
>
> I don't know how this should work (mechanics) but I agree with you that
> probably it should!
>
I've just checked, a python equivalence of the above command works:

     $ python -c 'import subprocess; subprocess.call("yes")'

Maybe some ideas can be extracted from it.

> Andy