Dear All 👋, I've been encountering a few times the need for a procedure like 'system' or 'system*' but that might be capable of capturing the output of the program that's being called.
While this is something that can be solved with a simple 'open-pipe*' wrapper, the pattern seems relatively frequent in Guix, which is where I noticed it. I suggested that some variant of such a wrapper could be added to '(guix build utils)'⁰. In reply to my post, it was brought to my attention that the problem might be addressed at the Guile level and pointed me to this bug report. I thought of sending a quick follow-up here to see if there's any rough consensus on a possible way of addressing this - or why it might be difficult or potentially not worth the effort. Thanks, all best, Fabio. ⁰ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-04/msg00199.html -- Fabio Natali https://fabionatali.com
