Re: Testing wanted for Gnome R

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Lyndon Drake wrote:
> 
> Also, it's not clear how I can get user input without forking a child
> process (which, due to the way R works, is a Bad Thing).
> 

Look at how Guppi does it, "guppi2" module in CVS (it forks a process that
just reads its standard input and sends it to the main process, and then
outputs stuff from the main process on standard output). CORBA works for
the IPC.

Havoc