Re: [Chicken-users] Controlling output of processes

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:14:02PM +0100, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> How can I start a process and control where it sends its stdout 
> or stderr? I know that I can do:
> 
> (receive
>    (p-stdout p-stdin p-pid p-stderr)
>    (process* command args)
>    (...))
> 
> This gives input and output ports connected to the process. But 
> how can I express, e.g.: "everything available on port p-stdout 
> should go to (current-output-port)"?
> 
> Can you give me some suggestions?

(receive
   (p-stdout p-stdin p-pid p-stderr)
   (process* command args)
   (with-input-from-port p-stdin (lambda () ....)))

See http://chicken.wiki.br/man/4/Unit%20ports

HTH,
Peter
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