On Tue 19 Jul 2016 00:22, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > To recap, the difficulty with all this is that we couldn’t just call out > the ‘gzip’ command because ‘guix publish’ uses threads, and threads and > fork(2) don’t go together well.
FWIW open-pipe or open-process from (ice-9 popen) should work reliably. The child is carefully written to be async-signal-safe before the execve(). Andy
