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

[Kevin Ryde]

address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
> True, but is it worth the effort?  What's the benefit supposed to be?

Only what you said about gc'ed port closing doing something the child
has no business touching.

> (signal handlers, maybe)

An ever present danger no doubt.  (They go via asyncs don't they?
Maybe call-with-blocked-asyncs around the fork.)

I guess some of these matters (if they're really problems) should be
outlined in the docs for primitive-fork.