Re: [STUMP] wmaker's RESTART

[Julian Stecklina]

Vitaly Mayatskikh <address@hidden> writes:

> At Sat, 2 May 2009 02:40:31 +0530, Sharad Pratap wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am only able to find
>> 
>> Eval : (linux:execl "/usr/bin/wmaker")
>> 
>> works ! only in clisp.
>> 
>> No solution for sbcl.
>> 
>> sbcl has sb-unix but no support for fork, execl etc, present.
>
> (sb-posix:fork)
>
> (sb-ext:run-program ...)
>
> ...
> ;;; RUN-PROGRAM uses fork() and execve() to run a different program.

This is a bit unfair, because RUN-PROGRAM uses some internal wrapper
around fork/execve that does some hairy cleanup stuff.

Regards,
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Julian Stecklina

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