[racket] fun with ports and (system ..) calls
Hi.
I want to read whatever a process writes to (current-output-port). There has to be a simple pattern for that which unfortunately I've failed to come up with.
Here's a process: (system (format "find . ~a ~a" "-name \"*.c\"" "-print"))
assuming I have a number of .c files I expect "find" to write corresponding lines to (current-output-port). I want to collect them in a list. Here's a solution I thought would work:
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(define-values (in out) (make-pipe))
(parameterize ((current-output-port out))
(system (format "find . ~a ~a" "-name \"*.c\"" "-print"))
(for/list ((line (in-lines in)))
line))
It doesn't. It blocks expecting input. Let's simplify the example:
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(define-values (in out) (make-pipe))
(displayln "hello" out)
(displayln "world" out)
(for/list ((line (in-lines in)))
line)
Blocks again. Am I not getting EOF here?
Here's a contrived and backwards solution that works:
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(for/list
((line
(in-lines (open-input-string
(with-output-to-string
(lambda () (system (format "find . ~a ~a" "-name \"*.c\"" "-print"))))))))
line)
Clearly, I don't understand ports. Help?
PS: placing a system call is an overkill for this particular task. Racket is perfectly capable of finding all .c files:
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(for/list ((path (in-list (map path->string (directory-list))))
#:when (regexp-match #rx".*\\.c$" path))
path)
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Vlad Kozin <vladilen.kozin at gmail.com>