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Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar"))


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar"))
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:22 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

Rob Browning <address@hidden> wrote:
> So would we want (system* . args) or (system* arg-list)?

I like (system* arg-list).

> What are guile's argument count limitations?  (Suppose the underlying
> OS's could be relevant as well...)

If the caller exceeds the OS limit, execve will fail, and we'll get a
system-error exception, won't we?  Or is that not what you're talking
about?


paul




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