Re: Guile: passing a file descriptor

2014-10-11 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Mark H Weaver : > Marko Rauhamaa writes: > >> A PF_UNIX socket can be used to pass an open file descriptor between >> processes. However, the relevant control message seems to be missing >> in Guile's POSIX facilities (send only accepts a data message). > > Indeed, we lack that functionality in c

Feature request: pretty print error message

2014-10-11 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
Subj. I believe Guile have two problems: -- error messages rarely mention, where real problem is -- they are also completely unreadable. Maybe situation with second can be improved, using (ice-9 pretty-print)? If I can plug it in, please tell me how, if I can't, maybe someone could make it poss

[ANN] Guile-SSH 0.7.1 released

2014-10-11 Thread Artyom Poptsov
Hello Guilers! I'm pleased to announce Guile-SSH 0.7.1: https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/releases/tag/v0.7.1 This release includes some bugfixes in tests and some new procedures such as `make-keypair' which allows to create keypairs with the specified parameters. Full list of user-v

Re: Guile: passing a file descriptor

2014-10-11 Thread Mark H Weaver
Marko Rauhamaa writes: > A PF_UNIX socket can be used to pass an open file descriptor between > processes. However, the relevant control message seems to be missing in > Guile's POSIX facilities (send only accepts a data message). Indeed, we lack that functionality in core Guile. > Am I mistake

Guile: passing a file descriptor

2014-10-11 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
A PF_UNIX socket can be used to pass an open file descriptor between processes. However, the relevant control message seems to be missing in Guile's POSIX facilities (send only accepts a data message). Am I mistaken, and are there any plans to add control message support to Guile's library? Mar