[slime-devel] Re: scripting via swank

* Gábor Melis [2007-01-25 19:09+0100] writes:

Ahoj

Suppose there is a long running lisp image with a swank server and I want to connect to it from shell scripts and evaluate lisp forms in an environment where *standard-output*, *standard-input* and *error-output* are bound to streams that correspond to stdout, stdin and stderr of the shell script.

The only idea I had was to pass the pid of the shell script to the lisp and bind *standard-output* to (open "/proc/<pid-of-shell-script/fd/0" ...) which should work on linux.

Anything nicer?

You could pass the file descriptors over a Unix socket. (I doubt though, that the usual CL-socket interfaces support that.)

Helmut.