Kevin: Thanks, yeah I didn't pay any attention to the version
On Monday, June 16, 2014 10:57:28 AM UTC+12, Aerlinger wrote: > > I'm writing a package to allow a Julia program to asynchronously listen > and respond to file change events on disk, but I've hit a bit of a > stumbling block. I need a way to fork a Julia process and have it listen to > specific OS system calls such as select, and then notify the parent process > of the event. This is sometimes called 'popen' in other languages ( > http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.2/IO.html#method-c-popen). I'm aware > that there are a bunch of functions for handling general IO ( > http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#i-o) but they don't > quite give me the control and interprocess communication that I'm looking > for. There was also a short discussion about this a couple of years ago: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-dev/l-4HLYX2qSI. Was > wondering if there have been any developments or if anyone else has some > insight on this capability. > > Thanks! >
