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Re: spawn call


From: Chaos Eternal
Subject: Re: spawn call
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 16:08:32 +0800

why not use guile-scsh? guile-scsh is a port of scsh (scheme shell) to guile.
guile-scsh can be used to do most shell script's task .

guile-scsh provides a lot of syntaxes and procs for use with os processes.
for example:
run
run/port
run/file
run/collecting

check it out here:
https://gitorious.org/guile-scsh

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Max <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm looking for a way to "fire and forget" external program from Guile: 
> something
> similar to spawnOnce call in Haskell.
>
> I've tried to look through 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html and ML
> archive but only found "system* arg1 arg2 …" which judging from description 
> uses
> waitpid. I need some function which does not wait for spawned program to 
> finish but
> returns immediately indicating whether it manage to start given program or 
> not - the
> spawned program might run forever for example.
>
> Where should I look for it? Some library perhaps? Some usage examples?
>
> cheers,
> Max.
>



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