[Ecls-list] RUN-PROCESS with input from string.

[Rupert Swarbrick]

Hi there,

I'm busy trying to port some website code to work with ECL as well as
SBCL. To do so, I'm trying to write a function that will create a
process with a given string as standard input. On sbcl, I'd do the
following:

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and that works fine: the program runs, reading from the string and then
exits. After thinking for a bit, I came up with the following code to
try to get things working with ecl:

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where /home/rupert/doit.sh contains the following:

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This works, in that tmp.txt contains blargl after the code runs, but the
process never finishes:

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