Re: debugging clisp? handling stderr in run-program/run-shell-command

[Pascal B. <pj...@in...>]

Arseny Slobodyuk writes:
> Dear Pascal,
> 
> > I'm trying to implement handling of stderr in run-program/run-shell-command.
> 
> I encourage you to test my EXT::LAUNCH function. It handles stderr and
> I can't recall why we didn't replace run-shell-command and friends
> with it. I believe it's just a case of "Works? Don't touch it!" rule.
> I tested it on UNIX just a little, so your opinion will be valuable.
> Argument's list description is in the sources.
> And let's see how to merge UNIX part of our code.
> 
> (I do not say how little free time I have because every second message
> contains such a claim.)

I didn't read closely LAUNCH. Since it wasn't referenced at all inside
clisp, and since it doesn't seem to be documented, I assumed it was
old code pending of pruning. :-(  clisp sources look like they could
benefit from some serrious refactoring, viewed from this corner...

I'll be reading LAUNCH.

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