Thanks but the documentation seems very limited. Also I really prefer GPL code over BSD/MIT/whatever proprietary-friendly so as long some free (as in Freedom, doh! English is such a limited language :) alternatives exists I'll always choose those.
27.04.2014 10:08, Chaos Eternal пишет: > why not use guile-scsh? guile-scsh is a port of scsh (scheme shell) to guile. > guile-scsh can be used to do most shell script's task . > > guile-scsh provides a lot of syntaxes and procs for use with os processes. > for example: > run > run/port > run/file > run/collecting > > check it out here: > https://gitorious.org/guile-scsh > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Max <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I'm looking for a way to "fire and forget" external program from Guile: >> something >> similar to spawnOnce call in Haskell. >> >> I've tried to look through >> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html and ML >> archive but only found "system* arg1 arg2 …" which judging from description >> uses >> waitpid. I need some function which does not wait for spawned program to >> finish but >> returns immediately indicating whether it manage to start given program or >> not - the >> spawned program might run forever for example. >> >> Where should I look for it? Some library perhaps? Some usage examples? >> >> cheers, >> Max. >> >
