[erlang-in-lisp-devel] Re: Erlang in Lisp

[Robert Virding]

I saw the reference to fork in the earlier message. Seeing I have come in a
little late you will have to excuse my asking. What do you intend to use
fork for in erlang-in-lisp? Erlang processes? Many Erlang processes can
generate many processes.

Robert

2008/5/19 Matt Bone <thatmattbone at gmail.com>:

> Ok, so I've been getting up to speed on my systems programming in
> common lisp.  I've actually been a bit surprised that there is no
> portable posix interface (though it shouldn't be too hard to make the
> things we're interested in work on various implementations).
>
> As far as pulling in the fork stuff from philip-jose, I've been
> screwing around with a lot of different things.  If it's alright with
> everyone I think I'd prefer to abandon the C file and just use
> implementation specific posix calls (like sb-posix:fork) when
> available and CFFI when not.
>
> To be honest I'm still not understanding how far we need to take the
> fork mechanism.  Are we trying to match, for example, the features in
> SCSH so this can be a useful standalone component?  Or is this just
> the concurrency mechanism we're looking to use as a starting point (if
> so, I have a few other questions/ideas that I'll need to
> ask/consider).
>
> I'll be away at a conference to present a paper tomorrow and tuesday.
> After that, all my non-SoC obligations are complete until the fall.
>
> --matt
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