[clisp-list] run-program uses shell?

[Peter W. <pet...@wo...>]

Hi

Is there some compelling reason that running programs has to go
through the shell? "(run-program ...)" is just a frontend for
"(run-shell-command ... :may-exec t)", right?  Is this purely for
portability reasons?

It's easy enough to run programs without /bin/sh using linux:fork and
linux:execlp*, but wait() is missing.  Is there some horrible,
insurmountable ffi thing with wait()?  How difficult would it be to do
a complete binding for wait() so all the WIF*(stat_val) stuff was
accessible from Lisp?

I want to use CLISP as _the_ shell, not as a frontend to /bin/sh.

Regards,
Peter