On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:43:27AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: > On 1/15/07, Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:16:58AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: > >> On 1/14/07, Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> >That made me think that doing a "wait" on the process *is* > >> >behaviour I want, and I should do that. However, process-wait > >> >throws an error if the process has already exited, and I can't > >> >seem to trap it. I tried: > >> > > >> >(condition-case (process-wait pid) (var () #t)) > >> > > >> > >> This should work. Are you running this interactively? > > > >If by interactively you mean with csi: nope; it's in the middle of a > >very complex system with thousands of lines of code in at least 4 > >languages. :-) > > > > Oh, great! ;-) > > Do you use with-exception-handler a lot?
This is my first long piece of Scheme code. :-) So, no. > Does the process-wait inside an exception-handler work when run > stand-alone (without the rest of the code)? > > Can you test whether the process is still alive, before doing the > test (perhaps by checking the /proc directory or through some > other hacks)? Ouch. That's all going to take a while; I'll see if I can get back to you. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
