Re: [Chicken-users] Adding (system->string) somewhere

[Kon Lovett]

On Jan 15, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Zbigniew wrote:

> On Jan 15, 2008 6:08 PM, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > [Zb wrote:]
> > > If with-input-from-pipe were to
> > > optionally take a list as first argument, and (if a list) open a  
> > > pipe
> > > bypassing the shell in this manner, that might be something worth
> > > looking into.
>
> > osprocess does this. Whether it is a "nice wrapper" is arguable.
>
> IIRC osprocess does what process does, just gives you more
> control--but both are multi-step processes.

Using the 'collect?:' option it can be a "one-step' process.

>   I was thinking a wrapper
> along the lines of the with-* procedures.  Or modifying
> open-input-pipe to call ##sys#process instead of popen() when there's
> a list involved.  It's useful enough in Perl that there's a special
> syntax for this, and I have used it heavily.  If I ever need it in
> Chicken I'll make an egg.

Probably cleaner.

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Best Wishes,
Kon