Of course !
Inter-OS APIs are such a pain. I think you do the right thing by
explicitating the differences regarding various OSes on the scribbled doc
page.
Maybe just documenting that:
* subprocess-pid retains the pid forever after the child has stopped running
* subprocess-pid returns 0 (or inval
At Sat, 8 Feb 2020 17:46:06 +0100, Bertrand Augereau wrote:
> You're right, but wouldn't using the posix_spawn family have better
> semantics, better performance, and would allow to unify between POSIX and
> Windows behaviours nicely ? :)
It's the usual problem: posix_spawn() doesn't quite support
Hi Matthew,
> Currently, if fork() fails on Unix (e.g., because there are too many
> processes), then `subprocess` will raise an exception. But if fork()
> succeeds, then there's normally no way to communicate an error from
> exec() except through the exit code, since exec() is in the child
> pr
At Sat, 8 Feb 2020 17:08:18 +0100, Bertrand Augereau wrote:
> > I'm not sure I completely understand the problem. You're correct that
> > there's no way to tell whether the value is an exit code from the program
> > or an error from the operating system ... but there also is no way to tell
> > tha
> I'm not sure I completely understand the problem. You're correct that
> there's no way to tell whether the value is an exit code from the program
> or an error from the operating system ... but there also is no way to tell
> that starting the program from the shell IF you rely solely on the ex
On 2/8/2020 8:58 AM, Bertrand Augereau wrote:
The 1st value returned by (subprocess) is an opaque reference to
the executing process. If you pass the reference to
(subprocess-status) it will return *'running* if the process
currently is executing, or the exit/error value.
"e
> The 1st value returned by (subprocess) is an opaque reference to the
> executing process. If you pass the reference to (subprocess-status) it
> will return *'running* if the process currently is executing, or the
> exit/error value.
>
"exit/error value" is the issue there.
(subprocess-st
On 2/8/2020 3:37 AM, Bertrand Augereau wrote:
:
I spawn my subprocess with subprocess :
https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/subprocess.html
And for the sake of completeness I want to know when suprocess failed
(because the users tampered with the exe, because there's an ACL
issue, whatev
Hello everybody,
I'm trying to drive a WIN32 application from a Racket gui app to provide
the QA guys a simple way to interact with it. So far I'm quite successful
but I'm having a little issue.
I spawn my subprocess with subprocess :
https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/subprocess.html
And f
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