Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On 10/26/07, Elf <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> heh, none of these are going to work everywhere.  all posix extensions are
> custom.  the only i/o procs in the standard are call-with-[input|output]file,
> with-[input|output]-to-file, current-[input|output]-port, 
> [input|output]-file?,
> [open|close]-[input|output]-file, write, display, read, load, eof-object?,
> newline, and the lovely and never implemented transcript-[on|off].  i know
> im missing some (character one, prolly), but the point is that the standard
> basically only says 'you need to be able to interact with the system' in terms
> of its i/o specification.  there has never been a general posix.1003 or 
> posix.2
> srfi submitted (or at least there has never been one posted).
>

     Yes, that's why a low-level egg is needed that uses POSIX where
available and (sigh) the Win32 API in Windows systems. In the ideal
world I would use only POSIX OSes, but unfortunately I can't and I'd
rather use scheme everywhere.

Cheers,
-- 
-alex
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