[Openmcl-devel] run-program / communicating with asynchronous jobs

[Ron Garret]

Are you sure that dx actually exits immediately?  You have :wait set to NIL, so run-program will return immediately, but that doesn't necessarily mean that dx has exited.

rg

On Feb 13, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Nicolas Neuss wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to communicate with a Data Explorer or Gnuplot job running in
> parallel to CCL.  I start that job as follows:
> 
> (setq *dx-process*
>      (ccl:run-program "/usr/bin/dx"
>       '("-script" "-cache" "off" "-log" "on") :wait nil
>       :input :stream :output :stream))
> 
> However, I am observing that dx exits immediately.  How should this be
> done correctly?  (I'm on Linux, BTW.)
> 
> Thank you,
> Nicolas Neuss
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