[Chicken-hackers] About (chicken process) and (chicken process-context)

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

I was filling in the "Module (chicken process)" wiki page for the new
manual, and noticed something peculiar:

current-process-id and parent-process-id are in (chicken process-context),
but process-group-id and its related setter, and create-session are in
(chicken process).  This seems... wrong.

I think it makes most sense to put them all in process-context, but it
might be slightly inconvenient that these are in a different module from
process-fork and friends.  But given that most/all of them are clearly
related to the current process context, I think (chicken process-context)
is the best place for them.

I noticed that the procedure signature for create-pipe, process-execute,
process and process* on Windows are different than on Unix.  There is an
additional optional argument for each of those, while on Unix we'll get
an error if we pass this extra argument.  I think it makes sense to have
the signature the same everywhere, just having the extra args ignored on
Unix.  That makes it easier to write portable programs without
cond-expand, and it makes for sane types.db entries (right now it has
only the Unix versions).

What do you all think?

Cheers,
Peter

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