Re: Understanding UIOP/RUN-PROGRAM

2015-09-29 Thread Mark Evenson
On 2015/9/29 17:34, Faré wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Mark Evenson wrote: >> I wanted to confirm with ASDF developers that as far as I can tell from >> wrangling with UIOP:RUN-PROGRAM, it isn't going to do what I want >> because there is no "asynchronous" mode. > UIOP:RUN-PROGRAM i

Re: Understanding UIOP/RUN-PROGRAM

2015-09-29 Thread Stelian Ionescu
> In a potentially memory constrained environment, I need to portably > (across sbcl and ccl at least) process a potentially large (multiple > GiB) stream of bytes output from a Linux command. For the curious, > "process" here means encrypt with a block cipher and push to the > network; whereas th

Re: Understanding UIOP/RUN-PROGRAM

2015-09-29 Thread Faré
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Mark Evenson wrote: > Is their any informal ASDF policy on the stability unexported symbols > like UIOP::%RUN-PROGRAM? I suspect y'all reserve the right to yank the > rug at any point, right? Given that UIOP::%RUN-PROGRAM abstracts the > Lisp implementations cap

Re: Understanding UIOP/RUN-PROGRAM

2015-09-29 Thread Faré
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Mark Evenson wrote: > I wanted to confirm with ASDF developers that as far as I can tell from > wrangling with UIOP:RUN-PROGRAM, it isn't going to do what I want > because there is no "asynchronous" mode. UIOP:RUN-PROGRAM itself is synchronous only, but its intern