Re: [STUMP] A shell command causes stumpwm freezed

[Shawn Betts]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:30 PM, z_axis <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am using stumpwm built with threaded clisp-2.49.  There is a user defined
> #'sh function as below:
> (defun sh (cmd)
>     (let ((str (ext:run-shell-command cmd :output :stream)))
>         (loop for line = (read-line str nil)
>             until (null line)
>             do (print line))))
>
> When run (sh "ping 192.168.1.1"),  The stumpwm will not do anything.  I know
> `ping 192.168.1.1` will not terminate unless user break it.
>
> What is an elegant way to handle such a problem ?

As far as I know ping never quits. It just pings endlessly. So you've
written a function that reads ping's output line by line until it
quits, which it will never do. What do you want to have happen?

-Shawn