fork in Lisp? was: Maxima servermode: stability of commands....
Subject: fork in Lisp? was: Maxima servermode: stability of commands....
From: Camm Maguire
Date: 05 May 2006 07:00:26 -0400
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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