On 8 February 2010 09:47, Pascal Bourguignon <[email protected]> wrote: > In asdf.lisp downloaded from the web page this afternoon, line 500. > > With clisp, the package LINUX is available only in special circumstances. > (it has to run on Linux, AND the glibc bindings module must have been > compiled AND clisp must have been launched with it, usually with -Kfull). > > So when using the LINUX package on clisp, we must test for it explicitely: > > #+(and clisp #.(cl:if (cl:find-package "LINUX") '(:and) '(:or))) > (defun get-uid () (linux:getuid)) > > A better alternative is to use POSIX:UID, which is available on a wider > range of systems (IIRC, MS-Windows is POSIX too): > #+clisp (defun get-uid () (POSIX:UID)) > > (and similarly for the PID if needed, (POSIX:PROCESS-ID)) > Yes, POSIX:UID is better than LINUX:getuid. I'll replace it. (For the record, that code snippet was stolen from common-lisp-controller.)
Note that this whole code is currently #-windows. If there are reasons to believe it will work under Windows, I may as well remove that #- (of course, some non-Windows systems are POSIX and the CLISP change is still needed. Thanks a lot!) [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] ``why'' is always relative to a model of possible explanations. It is never an "absolute" question. Which is precisely what makes it meaningful. — Faré _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
