[armedbear-devel] ext:run-shell-program

hi

I'd like to recieve output of external program as a stream, i.e. without getting it all in one (potentially) huge string but processing it in small portions as it comes.

But it looks like this is not possible to do this with ext:run-shell-program -- it accepts output stream as parameter, but I can't read from output stream, and there is no way to translate output stream into input string in CL. (make-echo-stream does the opposite.)

So ... am I missing something? If not, what is the best way to implement this?