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Re: [Chicken-hackers] About (chicken process) and (chicken process-conte


From: felix . winkelmann
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] About (chicken process) and (chicken process-context)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 11:22:46 +0200

> I was filling in the "Module (chicken process)" wiki page for the new
> manual, and noticed something peculiar:
>
> current-process-id and parent-process-id are in (chicken process-context),
> but process-group-id and its related setter, and create-session are in
> (chicken process).  This seems... wrong.
>
> I think it makes most sense to put them all in process-context, but it
> might be slightly inconvenient that these are in a different module from
> process-fork and friends.  But given that most/all of them are clearly
> related to the current process context, I think (chicken process-context)
> is the best place for them.
>
> I noticed that the procedure signature for create-pipe, process-execute,
> process and process* on Windows are different than on Unix.  There is an
> additional optional argument for each of those, while on Unix we'll get
> an error if we pass this extra argument.  I think it makes sense to have
> the signature the same everywhere, just having the extra args ignored on
> Unix.  That makes it easier to write portable programs without
> cond-expand, and it makes for sane types.db entries (right now it has
> only the Unix versions).
>
> What do you all think?

Yep, makes sense to me.


felix




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