[slime-devel] Re: scripting via swank

[Helmut Eller]

* Gábor Melis [2007-01-25 19:09+0100] writes:

> Ahoj
>
> Suppose there is a long running lisp image with a swank server and I 
> want to connect to it from shell scripts and evaluate lisp forms in an 
> environment where *standard-output*, *standard-input* and 
> *error-output* are bound to streams that correspond to stdout, stdin 
> and stderr of the shell script.
>
> The only idea I had was to pass the pid of the shell script to the lisp 
> and bind *standard-output* to 
> (open "/proc/<pid-of-shell-script/fd/0" ...) which should work on 
> linux.
>
> Anything nicer?

You could pass the file descriptors over a Unix socket.  (I doubt
though, that the usual CL-socket interfaces support that.)

Helmut.