Re: [clisp-list] Re: Broken pipe problem using ext:run-program under Linux (using latest CLISP 2.34)

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

Dan Corkill writes:
> 
> >":wait nil" means "exec cat &", i.e., cat does not wait for your input
> >and terminates right away.
> >  
> >
> Many thanks.  I should have read the docs more carefully.  The example 
> does work
> correctly with :wait 't.  I assumed that :wait controlled whether the 
> run-program
> call returned immediately or waited for the command to terminate (the 
> typical
> behavior of :wait for similar interfaces in many other CLs). 
> 
> BTW, is there a way to obtain the "wait for the run-program command to exit
> before proceeding" behavior in CLISP (the equivalent of specifying :wait 
> 't in
> those other implementations)?
> 
> Thanks again for the speedy advice!

This is what is done when input and output are both not :stream. 
clisp is not dumb.  When it sees it'll have to work, it doesn't wait.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/