why not use guile-scsh? guile-scsh is a port of scsh (scheme shell) to guile. guile-scsh can be used to do most shell script's task .
guile-scsh provides a lot of syntaxes and procs for use with os processes. for example: run run/port run/file run/collecting check it out here: https://gitorious.org/guile-scsh On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Max <maxim.sur...@campus.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm looking for a way to "fire and forget" external program from Guile: > something > similar to spawnOnce call in Haskell. > > I've tried to look through > http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html and ML > archive but only found "system* arg1 arg2 …" which judging from description > uses > waitpid. I need some function which does not wait for spawned program to > finish but > returns immediately indicating whether it manage to start given program or > not - the > spawned program might run forever for example. > > Where should I look for it? Some library perhaps? Some usage examples? > > cheers, > Max. >
