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From: Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>
To: Paul Emsley <paul.emsley@bioch.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: execlp
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:28:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPjoZodBcRnqsHik4XWeWCxnOgZzeyHaS1VAGoiW7JXZjTbTwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ECCE42F.8030404@bioch.ox.ac.uk>

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On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Paul Emsley <paul.emsley@bioch.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi Nala Ginrut,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I suspect I expressed myself poorly. (execlp "ls" "") replaces guile with
> "ls", which lists my files and returns me to the shell.
>
> What is some-function, where some-function works like this:
>
> (some-function "ls")
> -> "/bin/ls"  (I'd settle for #t")
> (some-function "asdfasdf")
> -> #f
>
> I thought that execl or its friends would be the way to answer that
> question...
>
>
I think there's no such a given function in Guile to do this.
But you can make it in a easy way in Guile:
(catch 'system-error
    (lambda () (execlp "asdfasdf"))
      (lambda (k . e)
         (format #t "oh no~%~")))

PS: Maybe you need #f instead of "format" according to your letter. ;-)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-23 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-22 16:06 execlp Paul Emsley
2011-11-23  5:47 ` execlp Nala Ginrut
2011-11-23  5:57   ` execlp Nala Ginrut
2011-11-23 12:16   ` execlp Paul Emsley
2011-11-23 12:22     ` execlp Nala Ginrut
2011-11-23 12:28     ` Nala Ginrut [this message]
2011-11-23 14:03       ` execlp rixed
2011-11-23 14:38         ` execlp Nala Ginrut
2011-11-23 19:18     ` execlp Thien-Thi Nguyen

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