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<cassepipe>Hi ! Just here to report that the link to SICP in the guile webstie is a 404 ***attila_lendvai_ is now known as attila_lendvai
<tricon>Top o' the week to ya, dsmith-work. ***ft_ is now known as ft
<lechner>Hi, is the reflective resolve-interface the best way to call procedures in a module programmatically? <lechner>dsmith-work: yeah, i was struggling with that language. i would like to open a module for which I have the name in a string <lechner>Hi, Guile places compiled .go files near the .scm sources. What if the folder is owned by someone else? <dsmith-work>lechner: That's where the installed system .go files are. Normally they end up under ~/.cache/guile/ccache/ <lechner>dsmith-work: what happens when guile runs as root on scm files in a user-owned directory? <dsmith-work>;;; compiled /root/.cache/guile/ccache/3.0-LE-8-4.6/home/dales/hello.scm.go <lechner>dsmith-work: thank you so much! sorry about the basic questions. <lechner>tricon: phew! i should be able to investigate myself, but i am super new <lechner>Hi, what is the best way to fork and drop privileges while staying in Guile, please? <jpoiret>i don't think there are guile primitives for dropping privileges, you might want to call the syscalls directly <jpoiret>depends on what you mean by dropping privileges though :) <jpoiret>if it's only setuid/gid, then guile should have you covered <lechner>jpoiret: thanks! i was more worried about primitive-fork as (ice-9 popen) does not seem to cover my use case (but the program is single-threaded) <jpoiret>you have all the reasons in the world to be worried about primitive-fork <jpoiret>i wouldn't recommend it, as guile code might call async-signal unsafe functions without you noticing, which is UB <jpoiret>the cleaner way would be to code a small C function that you would load through extensions