Clemens Heitzinger <rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at at cheitzin> writes:
> Raimondas Kiveris <ldis.com at rai> writes:
>
> > I have following problem:
> >
> > I have to use run-shell-command in a multithreaded application.
> > Run-shell-command with :wait t apparently suspends all other
> > threads and if external process takes significant time to complete
> > the whole application practically hangs.
>
> Try running RUN-SHELL-COMMAND in a separate thread, or new lisp
> listener. It seems as if the whole ACL unix process only hangs if you
> use RUN-SHELL-COMMAND in the first (main?) lisp process. This should
> really be submitted as a bug report (at least, documentation bug
> report).