From a9534b67bd128e250115d9cd0fa17a26ab1a586d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:05:54 -0700 Subject: note about requiring Lisp implementation fork(2) wrappers Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton --- doc/introduction.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/introduction.rst b/doc/introduction.rst index b6d2f0c..d72848d 100644 --- a/doc/introduction.rst +++ b/doc/introduction.rst @@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ Portability and stability author on implementations other than SBCL, so testing and portability patches are welcome. +- Lisp implementations which will run on the hosts you wish to configure must + expose some mechanism for safely calling fork(2), like ``SB-POSIX:FORK`` in + the case of SBCL. The root Lisp does not need to fork(2). + - Little attempt is made by the author to support systems other than Debian GNU/Linux, but again, portability patches are welcome, and the design of Consfigurator should enable supporting other systems. -- cgit v1.2.3