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Chapter 9. Running Other Programs as Subprocesses

9.1. Overview

Clozure CL provides primitives to run external Unix programs, to select and connect Lisp streams to their input and output sources, to (optionally) wait for their completion and to check their execution and exit status.

All of the global symbols described below are exported from the CCL package.

This implementation is modeled on - and uses some code from - similar facilities in CMUCL.


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