[erlang-questions] Re: Chain two spawned processes

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

There is a well thought out design for controlling UNIX processes from
Scheme here: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/scsh-faq/
It is helpful when thinking about this kind of thing.


bengt

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 15:46 +0400, Max Lapshin wrote:
> Yes, it seems, just that Erlang unix layer lacks all these process
> control stuff.
> 
> Look, what I really need is to connect two processes via one pipe so
> that no data is passed through beam,
> and grab stderr of second one to controll process of execution.
> 
> sys.c cannot do this right now.
> 
> Currently I will do exactly as You say: launch shell script. However,
> maybe will be reasonable to make patches to erlang unix/sys.c
> to add more control for process starting and spawning?
> 
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