Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-31 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
Ozzi wrote: > Thomas Christian Chust wrote: > >> I think it would suffice for daemonize to wrap the call to the daemon's >> main procedure in a dynamic-wind block and call the cleanup function >> from the exit thunk. Unless the daemon procedure terminates itself with >> a low-level _exit or by sen

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:09:27PM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: > On 10/31/07, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, so be it. I'll add a note to 'extensions to the standard' and the > > documentation of 'exit' because I'm sure there are more people out there > > who are not aware o

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-31 Thread felix winkelmann
On 10/31/07, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, so be it. I'll add a note to 'extensions to the standard' and the > documentation of 'exit' because I'm sure there are more people out there > who are not aware of this. This has nothing to do with the standard. "exit" is not a standard

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:23:59AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: > > Why wouldn't it if you use dynamic-wind? The thunk is exited by > > calling (exit), isn't it? So I would *expect* it to call the 'after' > > part of the dynamic-wind. Just from reading the standard I would never > > consider t

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-31 Thread felix winkelmann
On 10/31/07, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:24:44AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: > > On 10/31/07, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > The "exit" will not invoke any pending dynamic-wind thunks > > > > > > Why not? Shouldn't it? IMHO it violate

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:24:44AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: > On 10/31/07, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The "exit" will not invoke any pending dynamic-wind thunks > > > > Why not? Shouldn't it? IMHO it violates POLA not to do so. > > Because it might not be desired. Wh

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-31 Thread felix winkelmann
On 10/31/07, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The "exit" will not invoke any pending dynamic-wind thunks > > Why not? Shouldn't it? IMHO it violates POLA not to do so. Because it might not be desired. It shouldn't. And I don't know who POLA is, nor did I meeet her before. cheers, f

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:44:19AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: > On 10/31/07, Ozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, I think I understand what you're getting it. Unfortunately I can't get > > it to > > work. You'll have to excuse the thrown-together quality of the code below, > > but > >

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-30 Thread felix winkelmann
On 10/31/07, Ozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I think I understand what you're getting it. Unfortunately I can't get it > to > work. You'll have to excuse the thrown-together quality of the code below, but > it demonstrates the problem I have. Perhaps I am just mis-using dynamic-wind, > or

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-30 Thread Ozzi
Thomas Christian Chust wrote: > I think it would suffice for daemonize to wrap the call to the daemon's > main procedure in a dynamic-wind block and call the cleanup function > from the exit thunk. Unless the daemon procedure terminates itself with > a low-level _exit or by sending itself a kill

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-29 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
Mark Fredrickson wrote: >> I think it would suffice for daemonize to wrap the call to the daemon's >> main procedure in a dynamic-wind block and call the cleanup function >> from the exit thunk. Unless the daemon procedure terminates itself with >> a low-level _exit or by sending itself a kill sig

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Fredrickson
> I think it would suffice for daemonize to wrap the call to the daemon's > main procedure in a dynamic-wind block and call the cleanup function > from the exit thunk. Unless the daemon procedure terminates itself with > a low-level _exit or by sending itself a kill signal, the cleanup code > shoul

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-27 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
Ozzi wrote: > Thomas Christian Chust wrote: > >> I wonder why one would want to pass this cleanup argument to the daemon >> procedure -- why should the spawned process simply perform cleanup once >> the daemon procedure returns? > > The problem with that, as I see it, is that sometimes daemons d

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-26 Thread Ozzi
Thomas Christian Chust wrote: I wonder why one would want to pass this cleanup argument to the daemon procedure -- why should the spawned process simply perform cleanup once the daemon procedure returns? The problem with that, as I see it, is that sometimes daemons don't get to return normall

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-26 Thread Elf
grok that. im trying to get chicken working in visual studio. this does not rate amongst the 'fun' things i have done. yay work requiring ms os. -elf On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Alex Queiroz wrote: Hallo, On 10/26/07, Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: heh, none of these are going to work everyw

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-26 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 10/26/07, Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > heh, none of these are going to work everywhere. all posix extensions are > custom. the only i/o procs in the standard are call-with-[input|output]file, > with-[input|output]-to-file, current-[input|output]-port, > [input|output]-file?, > [

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-26 Thread Elf
heh, none of these are going to work everywhere. all posix extensions are custom. the only i/o procs in the standard are call-with-[input|output]file, with-[input|output]-to-file, current-[input|output]-port, [input|output]-file?, [open|close]-[input|output]-file, write, display, read, load,

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-26 Thread Elf
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Thomas Christian Chust wrote: Elf wrote: um, why not just use (duplicate-fileno (portfileno )) ? [...] Because not the file descriptor of a given port should be duplicated but rather the file descriptor of a given port should be replaced by a duplicate of another one.

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-26 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 10/26/07, Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (re: the daemon question, i would just use > (foreign-lambda int "daemon" int int) , > but thats just me.) > A very nice solution... If it worked (everywhere). Cheers, -- -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-26 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
Elf wrote: > um, why not just use (duplicate-fileno (portfileno )) ? [...] Because not the file descriptor of a given port should be duplicated but rather the file descriptor of a given port should be replaced by a duplicate of another one. Of course one could use (portfileno ...) instead of th

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-26 Thread Elf
um, why not just use (duplicate-fileno (portfileno )) ? or if its only stdin/stdout/stderr that youre worried about, calling (current-[input|output|error]-port) with an argument should change the value. the above three procs are parameters (re: the daemon question, i would just use

Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-26 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
Ozzi wrote: > I am working on for creating unix daemons. Can anyone tell me how to > redirect stdout and stderr? I want to redirect them to /dev/null by > default. Hello, such an egg would indeed be a useful addition :-) To redirect the standard file descriptors I would suggest to use the same

[Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

2007-10-25 Thread Ozzi
I am working on for creating unix daemons. Can anyone tell me how to redirect stdout and stderr? I want to redirect them to /dev/null by default. I would also be interested in comments on my plans for the egg in general. Presently, the interface is as follows: daemonize is a function that tak