Raimondas Kiveris <ldis.com at rai> writes:

> I have following problem: 
> 
> I have to use run-shell-command in a multithreaded application.
> Run-shell-command with :wait t apparently suspends all other 
> threads and if external process takes significant time to complete
> the whole application practically hangs. 

Try running RUN-SHELL-COMMAND in a separate thread, or new lisp
listener.  It seems as if the whole ACL unix process only hangs if you
use RUN-SHELL-COMMAND in the first (main?) lisp process.  This should
really be submitted as a bug report (at least, documentation bug
report).

Yours,
Clemens