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From: " Dr. Axel Poigné " <axel.poigne@iais.fraunhofer.de>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] commands.getoutput () in ocaml?
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:24:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02125A45-BC89-4B44-B3A2-6BCC88B6FC37@iais.fraunhofer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0708221509200.13687@tenhost.net>

>
>
>> I am looking for a quick way to do the equivalent of
>> s = commands.getoutput ("ls " + name + "*")
>> in Ocaml.
>>
>
> I have translated many of the examples from the Perl Cookbook for  
> the Process Management and Communication chapter of the OCaml  
> PLEAC. This is one of the topics covered.
>
> http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ocaml/processmanagementetc.html
>
> Dave
>

There is a problem with the read_process_lines function though: if  
the output buffer gets too long the process does not return to close  
the input channel. Consequence is that the spawning process is blocked.

That's a problem I do not know how to solve.

Axel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-23 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-22 19:56 Luca de Alfaro
2007-08-22 20:05 ` [Caml-list] " malc
2007-08-22 20:10   ` malc
2007-08-22 20:11 ` Dave Benjamin
2007-08-22 21:32   ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-08-22 22:11     ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2007-08-22 22:13     ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-22 22:35   ` Olivier Andrieu
2007-08-22 23:04     ` Eric Cooper
2007-08-22 22:52       ` Dave Benjamin
2007-08-23  4:03       ` Dave Benjamin
2007-08-23 17:07         ` Eric Cooper
2007-08-23 15:24   `  Dr. Axel Poigné  [this message]
2007-08-22 20:17 ` Brian Hurt

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