ECL uiop:run-program in SLIME

[mycl]

Similar to #1232225, which was fixed, this fails in SLIME (not at the command-line) with ECL on Mac or Linux:

     (uiop:run-program '("uname") :output :interactive :input nil)

With the message:

    :OUTPUT argument to RUN-PROGRAM does not have a file handle:#<a SWANK/GRAY::SLIME-OUTPUT-STREAM>

As does:

     (uiop:run-program '("uname") :output :interactive)

With the messaage:

    :INPUT argument to RUN-PROGRAM does not have a file handle:#<a SWANK/GRAY::SLIME-INPUT-STREAM>

Crazily, this has no problems:

    (uiop:run-program "uname" :output :interactive)

Nor does this:

    (uiop:run-program '("uname"))

The wider implication is that cffi-grovel breaks, taking much of quicklisp down with it. https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/issues/357

[Faré (fahree)]

I believe the problem is that we fail to properly redirect std{in,out,err} when using :interactive in the use-run-program case on ECL.

[Faré (fahree)]

Elias, do you want to handle this?

[Faré (fahree)]

Elias, if you don't want to do it, I can do it some time later this month.

[Faré (fahree)]

I have a fix in the ecl-build branch !66:
https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/merge_requests/66

[pipping (pipping)]

It seems I’m rather late to the party. I never received any notification for this bug.

What is the status now?

[Faré (fahree)]

Checking at my SLIME REPL, it fails for the ECL-bundled 3.1.8.2, and succeeds with the current 3.3.0 candidate, so it looks like !66 fixed it.