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.<br>
<br>Robert<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/19 Matt Bone <<a href="mailto:thatmattbone@gmail.com">thatmattbone@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ok, so I've been getting up to speed on my systems programming in<br>
common lisp. I've actually been a bit surprised that there is no<br>
portable posix interface (though it shouldn't be too hard to make the<br>
things we're interested in work on various implementations).<br>
<br>
As far as pulling in the fork stuff from philip-jose, I've been<br>
screwing around with a lot of different things. If it's alright with<br>
everyone I think I'd prefer to abandon the C file and just use<br>
implementation specific posix calls (like sb-posix:fork) when<br>
available and CFFI when not.<br>
<br>
To be honest I'm still not understanding how far we need to take the<br>
fork mechanism. Are we trying to match, for example, the features in<br>
SCSH so this can be a useful standalone component? Or is this just<br>
the concurrency mechanism we're looking to use as a starting point (if<br>
so, I have a few other questions/ideas that I'll need to<br>
ask/consider).<br>
<br>
I'll be away at a conference to present a paper tomorrow and tuesday.<br>
After that, all my non-SoC obligations are complete until the fall.<br>
<br>
--matt<br>
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