Re: debugging guile runtime

2011-08-31 Thread Andy Wingo
Are you saying that we should have an interface that makes sure that the child process *only* has some set of file descriptors open? Just trying to understand :) Andy -- http://wingolog.org/

Re: debugging guile runtime

2011-08-31 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Cedric, Let me first thank you for your patience! It is excellent having someone test the edges of Guile, and to stay around with us while we fix them :-) On Mon 29 Aug 2011 14:50, ri...@happyleptic.org writes: > #1 ports are not thread safe (and any other thread safety issues) ; In general

Re: debugging guile runtime

2011-08-31 Thread rixed
> > (BTW, if anyone knows the rational behind this, I would be glad to > > know). > > When typing ???foo 2< baz 5> bar??? in a shell, the shell first forks, the > opens/dups 2 and 5, and finally execs ???foo???, which gets to see 2 and 5 > as open FDs. Yes, the shell can open/dup the file additio