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Re: spawn call
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Chris Vine |
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Re: spawn call |
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Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:15:27 +0100 |
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:52:55 +0200
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.
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> 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?
guile-lib (not to be confused with guile itself) has some process
starting support in the (os process) module. run-with-pipe may be what
you are looking for, although there are others.
Chris