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Re: changing directory

To: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
Subject: Re: changing directory
From: cwitty at newtonlabs dot com (Carl R. Witty)
Date: 09 Jun 2000 12:43:46 -0700
Cc: Ivan Toshkov <ivant at ifao dot net>, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
References: <14657.2524.622834.907515@unifr.ch> <xy77lby7ug6.fsf@mdj.nada.kth.se> <20000609182722.E24861@www.vizion.net> <xy73dmm7srf.fsf@mdj.nada.kth.se>

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> However, the Scheme level `system' actually calls OS system.  That is,
> it is synchronous, and does not fork.

On UNIX-like systems, the libc function system() certainly does use
the fork() system call, although this is (mostly) hidden from the
caller, and the effect is synchronous.

Carl Witty

References:
- changing directory
  - From: Olivier Buechel
- Re: changing directory
  - From: Mikael Djurfeldt
- Re: changing directory
  - From: Ivan Toshkov
- Re: changing directory
  - From: Mikael Djurfeldt

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