Subject: Re: SBCL and programming Linux
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:28:07 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <NO6dncFmerFaOkfZnZ2dnUVZ_q-dnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
jurgen_defurne <jurgen.defurne@pandora.be> wrote:
+---------------
| In addition to this, do you if there is a CL available which can do
| asynchronous process control (ie. fork()/exec() and wait()/waitpid()),
| or could this also be implemented via CFFI ?
+---------------

Both SBCL and its ancestor CMUCL should have most of the standard
Unix [Posix, Linux] system calls in the "UNIX" package, e.g., I know
that CMUCL has UNIX:UNIX-FORK and UNIX:UNIX-EXECVE and lots more.

[UNIX:UNIX-WAIT & UNIX:UNIX-WAITPID are in "code/unix-glibc2.lisp",
but disabled. Why?]


-Rob

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