On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 18:45 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Richard Shann <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:22:12 +0100 > > > > Should I expect the procedure ftw to work on Microsoft file > > systems? > > A call that works on Unix seems to hang on M/S > > Up front, I cannot see why should it not work. Can you show an > example that hangs? Thanks for the reassurance - I just wanted to check that I wasn't wasting my time before starting to dig into it - my example is very complex - but I've now run it under wine and I see it's not hanging but complaining about (#f Unbound variable: ~S (getuid) #f) (this is Guile 1.8). As long as those Microsoft file systems are, in principle, supported, I'll carry on digging.
> > > And, for good measure, what is the "command processor" that will be > > invoked by the system and system* procedures? > > The same one invoked by the C library function 'system', i.e. cmd.exe > by default. Ok, well thinking about it I can use system* which then by passes that, I don't use any globbing. Thanks again Richard
