Re: spawn call

[Max]

Thanks but the documentation seems very limited. Also I really prefer GPL code 
over
BSD/MIT/whatever proprietary-friendly so as long some free (as in Freedom, doh!
English is such a limited language :) alternatives exists I'll always choose 
those.

27.04.2014 10:08, Chaos Eternal пишет:
> 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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