Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar"))

[Paul Jarc]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> Oops, right.  Kevin also mentioned using _exit.  I'm not sure why that
>> would be important,
>
> When exiting due to an exec failure, you generally don't want to run
> atexit handlers or flush stdio buffers.  Those things of course are
> not done if the exec succeeds.

Ok.  My procedure uses flush-all-ports before the fork, but atexit
could still be an issue.  In this particular case, though, we don't
need _exit; we can just do (raise SIGKILL).  The parent ignores the
exit status if an exception was passed back.


paul