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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Determination of the identification for the last started background process
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 18:52:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d466a349-7bcf-d118-c1f3-8790fbd133d2@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D1AF3E46-93DA-45ED-8BC5-F64097A1EF85@first.in-berlin.de>

>> https://ocaml.org/releases/4.11/htmlman/libref/UnixLabels.html#VALcreate_process
>>
>> Now I am curious which datum should be passed for the argument “stdin”
>> if a program should be executed as a child process without extra standard input?
> [...]
>
> It would be much easier to point you to the right functions,

Thanks for your growing development interest.


> if you would give some  more details on what you want to do,

I became interested in the safe handling of commands for PostScript viewers.


> e.g. an example command that you want to use, and to tell us, if you want to pass data into it or read data from it, and so on.

Would you like to add any comments to background information
which was provided for code review with the commit “add error checking” (from 2020-12-24)
for an evolving software?
https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/commit/4127b5546ccd929ae017565e710a3c9092f0bb0c

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-09 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06 14:05 Markus Elfring
2021-01-06 14:41 ` Gabriel Scherer
2021-01-09 16:08   ` Markus Elfring
2021-01-09 16:33     ` Gabriel Scherer
2021-01-09 16:43       ` [Caml-list] Creation of a child process without extra standard input? Markus Elfring
2021-01-09 16:44       ` [Caml-list] Determination of the identification for the last started background process Xavier Leroy
2021-01-09 16:52         ` Markus Elfring
2021-01-09 17:29           ` Oliver Bandel
2021-01-09 18:00             ` Markus Elfring
2021-01-09 17:26     ` Oliver Bandel
2021-01-09 17:52       ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2021-01-10  9:00       ` [Caml-list] Specification of an input file for a child process Markus Elfring

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