fork in Lisp? was: Maxima servermode: stability of commands....



Greetings!  GCL-2.7.0 has si::fork support together with parallel
processng primitives p-let, p-and, and p-or.  Allocation in the child
is done on the stack to avoid the copy-on-write penalty accruing from
gc.

Take care,

"Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/3/06, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
> > CMUCL has unix:unix-fork.  SBCL has something similar, I think.
> 
> >From reading the available documentation
> (http://www.sbcl.org/manual/Support-For-Unix.html)
> it looks like SBCL doesn't have fork.
> I don't find fork in the documentation for Clisp or GCL either.
> 
> I guess that calling fork via FFI should be possible.
> 
> Robert
> 
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