[armedbear-devel] Several ABCL/Java questions

[Mark Evenson]

On 1/4/11 11:25 , Alessio Stalla wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Didier Verna<didier at lrde.epita.fr>  wrote:
>
>> 2/ ABCL doesn't seem to provide a [set|put]env function. From what I can
>>    gather from the internet, that would be because there's no such thing
>>    in Java. I've seen some nasty tricks around consisting in modifying
>>    the (application-local) initial memory mapping of the environment,
>>    but that's all. Is this correct ?
>
> I'd say yes, it's correct. But what are you trying to achieve?

Access to reading environment variables to the JVM process is available 
by the function on the EXT:GETENV symbol.  When spawning sub-process, 
one can use the ProcessBuilder interface Alessio described.

Low level stuff for which you know the local system analogs via ANSI C 
linkage would be well served by using CFFI to wrap calls to 
[abcl-cffi-jna][]. We have a [putative patch to run JNA with the 
callbacks made possible via constructing the necessary Java interfaces 
on-the-fly made possible on abcl-0.24-dev][1] that we welcome feedback 
on esp. wrt. improving the ABCL system interfaces.

[abcl-cffi-jna]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/wiki/asdf/cffi
[1]: http://slack.net/~evenson/abcl/cffi-abcl-20101231a.diff

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