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@ -29,48 +29,10 @@ The field parsers can be applied to arbitrary strings (one common use is
splitting environment variables such as \ex{\$PATH} at colons into its
component elements).
\subsection{Reading delimited strings}
These procedures read in strings from ports delimited by characters
belonging to a specific set.
See section~\ref{sec:char-sets} for information on character set manipulation.
\defun{read-delimited}{char-set [port]} {{\str} or eof}
\begin{desc}
Read until we encounter one of the chars in \var{char-set} or eof.
The terminating character is not included in the string returned,
nor is it removed from the input stream; the next input operation will
encounter it. If we get a string back, then \ex{(eof-object? (peek-char))}
tells if the string was terminated by a delimiter or eof.
The \var{char-set} argument may be a charset, a string, a character, or a
character predicate; it is coerced to a charset.
This operation is likely to be implemented very efficiently. In
the Scheme 48 implementation, the Unix port case is implemented directly
in C, and is much faster than the equivalent operation performed
in Scheme with \ex{peek-char} and \ex{read-char}.
\end{desc}
\defun{read-delimited!} {char-set buf [port start end]} {nchars or eof or \#f}
\begin{desc}
A side-effecting variant of \ex{read-delimited}.
The data is written into the string \var{buf} at the indices in the
half-open interval $[\var{start},\var{end})$; the default interval is the
whole string: $\var{start}=0$ and $\var{end}=\ex{(string-length
\var{buf})}$. The values of \var{start} and \var{end} must specify a
well-defined interval in \var{str}, \ie, $0 \le \var{start} \le \var{end}
\le \ex{(string-length \var{buf})}$.
It returns \var{nbytes}, the number of bytes read. If the buffer filled up
without a delimiter character being found, \ex{\#f} is returned. If
the port is at eof when the read starts, the eof object is returned.
If an integer is returned, then
\ex{(eof-object (peek-char port))}
tells if the string was terminated by a delimiter or eof.
\end{desc}
The general delimited-input procedures described in
chapter~\ref{chapt:rdelim} are also useful for reading simple records,
such as single lines, paragraphs of text, or strings terminated by specific
characters.
\subsection{Reading records}
@ -79,21 +41,22 @@ See section~\ref{sec:char-sets} for information on character set manipulation.
Returns a procedure that reads records from a port. The
procedure is invoked as follows:
%
\codex{(\var{reader} \var{[port]}) $\longrightarrow$ \emph{{\str} or eof}}
\codex{(\var{reader} \var{[port]}) $\longrightarrow$
\textrm{\textit{{\str} or eof}}}
%
A record is a sequence of characters terminated by one of the characters
in \var{delims} or eof. If \var{elide-delims?} is true, then a contiguous
sequence of delimiter chars are taken as a single record delimiter. If
\var{elide-delims?} is false, then a delimiter char coming immediately
after a delimiter char produces an empty string record. The reader
after a delimiter char produces an empty-string record. The reader
consumes the delimiting char(s) before returning from a read.
The \var{delims} set defaults to the set $\{\rm newline\}$.
The \var{delims} set defaults to the set $\{\mbox{newline}\}$.
It may be a charset, string, character, or character predicate,
and is coerced to a charset.
The \var{elide-delims?} flag defaults to \ex{\#f}.
The \var{handle-delim} controls what is done with the record's
The \var{handle-delim} argument controls what is done with the record's
terminating delimiter.
\begin{inset}
\begin{tabular}{lp{0.6\linewidth}}
@ -111,18 +74,6 @@ See section~\ref{sec:char-sets} for information on character set manipulation.
a string or eof.
\end{desc}
\defun{read-paragraph} {[port delimiter?]} {{\str} or eof}
\begin{desc}
This procedure skips blank lines,
then reads text from a port until a blank line or eof is found.
A ``blank line'' is a (possibly empty) line composed only of white space.
If \var{delimiter?} is true, the terminating blank line is included in the
return string; it defaults to \ex{\#f}. When the delimiter is included,
\verb|(match-string "\n[ \t]*\n$" paragraph)|
can be used to determine if the paragraph was terminated by a blank line
or by eof.
\end{desc}
\subsection{Parsing fields}
@ -183,7 +134,7 @@ These functions return a parser function that can be used as follows:
\ex{'trim} & Delimiters are thrown away after parsing. (default) \\
\ex{'concat} & Delimiters are appended to the field preceding them. \\
\ex{'split} & Delimiters are returned as separate elements in
the field vector.
the field list.
\end{tabular}
\end{tightinset}
@ -193,7 +144,7 @@ These functions return a parser function that can be used as follows:
error if there are more or fewer than $n$ fields in the record. If
\var{num-fields} is a negative integer or zero, then $|n|$ fields
are parsed, and the remainder of the string is returned in the last
element of the field vector; it is an error if fewer than $|n|$ fields
element of the field list; it is an error if fewer than $|n|$ fields
can be parsed.
The field parser produced is a procedure that can be employed as
@ -227,7 +178,7 @@ These functions return a parser function that can be used as follows:
It is an error if a non-empty record does not end with a delimiter.
To make the last delimiter optional, make sure the delimiter regexp
matches the end-of-string \verb|(regexp "$")|.
matches the end-of-string (regexp \ex{"\$"}).
\item [\ex{infix-splitter}]
Delimiters are interpreted as element \emph{separators}. If comma is the
@ -246,17 +197,17 @@ These functions return a parser function that can be used as follows:
\end{tabular}
\end{inset}
Note that separator semantics doesn't really allow for empty records --
the straightforward grammar (\ie, \synvar{real-infix-record}) parses
an empty string as a singleton list whose one field is the empty string,
\ex{("")}, not as the empty record \ex{()}. This is unfortunate,
Note that separator semantics doesn't really allow for empty
records---the straightforward grammar (\ie, \synvar{real-infix-record})
parses an empty string as a singleton list whose one field is the empty
string, \ex{("")}, not as the empty record \ex{()}. This is unfortunate,
since it means that infix string parsing doesn't make \ex{string-append}
and \ex{vector-append} isomorphic. For example,
and \ex{append} isomorphic. For example,
\codex{((infix-splitter ":") (string-append \var{x} ":" \var{y}))}
doesn't always equal
\begin{code}
(vector-append ((infix-splitter ":") \var{x})
((infix-splitter ":") \var{y}))\end{code}
(append ((infix-splitter ":") \var{x})
((infix-splitter ":") \var{y}))\end{code}
It fails when \var{x} or \var{y} are the empty string.
Terminator semantics \emph{does} preserve a similar isomorphism.
@ -322,7 +273,7 @@ Record & : suffix & \verb!:|$! suffix & : infix & non-: field \\
\subsection{Field readers}
\defun{field-reader} {[field-parser rec-reader]} \proc
\begin{desc}
This utility returns a procedure that reads records with field structure
from a port.
The reader's interface is designed to make it useful in the \ex{awk}
@ -347,10 +298,11 @@ Record & : suffix & \verb!:|$! suffix & : infix & non-: field \\
For example, if port \ex{p} is open on \ex{/etc/passwd}, then
\codex{((field-reader (infix-splitter ":" 7)) p)}
returns two values:
\begin{code}
{\small
\begin{widecode}
"dalbertz:mx3Uaqq0:107:22:David Albertz:/users/dalbertz:/bin/csh"
("dalbertz" "mx3Uaqq0" "107" "22" "David Albertz" "/users/dalbertz"
"/bin/csh")\end{code}
"/bin/csh")\end{widecode}}
The \var{field-parser} defaults to the value of \ex{(field-splitter)},
a parser that picks out sequences of non-white-space strings.
@ -391,8 +343,10 @@ Record & : suffix & \verb!:|$! suffix & : infix & non-: field \\
\label{fig:field-readers}
\end{boxedfigure}
\end{desc}
\subsection{Forward-progress guarantees and empty string matches}
\subsection{Forward-progress guarantees and empty-string matches}
A loop that pulls text off a string by repeatedly matching a regexp
against that string can conceivably get stuck in an infinite loop if
the regexp matches the empty string. For example, the regexps \verb|^|,
@ -438,7 +392,7 @@ Unix doesn't support peeking ahead into input streams.
Scsh provides a loop macro and a set of field parsers that can
be used to perform text processing very similar to the Awk programming
language.
These basic functionality of Awk is factored in scsh into its component
The basic functionality of Awk is factored in scsh into its component
parts.
The control structure is provided by the \ex{awk} loop macro;
the text I/O and parsers are provided by the field-reader subroutine library
@ -477,7 +431,7 @@ these values are bound to the variables given in the
The first value returned is assumed to be the record;
when it is the end-of-file object, the loop terminates.
For example, let's suppose we want to read items from \etc{/etc/password},
For example, let's suppose we want to read items from \ex{/etc/password},
and we use the \ex{field-reader} procedure to define a record parser for
\ex{/etc/passwd} entries:
\codex{(define read-passwd (field-reader (infix-splitter ":" 7)))}
@ -538,10 +492,10 @@ it checks them all.
\itum{\begin{tabular}[t]{l}
\ex{(range \var{start-test} \var{stop-test} \vari{body}1 \ldots)} \\
\ex{(:range \var{start-test} \var{stop-test} \vari{body}1 \ldots)} \\
\ex{(range: \var{start-test} \var{stop-test} \vari{body}1 \ldots)} \\
\ex{(:range: \var{start-test} \var{stop-test} \vari{body}1 \ldots)}
\ex{(range\ \ \ \var{start-test} \var{stop-test} \vari{body}1 \ldots)} \\
\ex{(:range\ \ \var{start-test} \var{stop-test} \vari{body}1 \ldots)} \\
\ex{(range:\ \ \var{start-test} \var{stop-test} \vari{body}1 \ldots)} \\
\ex{(:range:\ \var{start-test} \var{stop-test} \vari{body}1 \ldots)}
\end{tabular}}
%
These clauses become activated when \var{start-test} is true;
@ -554,10 +508,10 @@ it checks them all.
The colons control whether or not the start and stop lines
are processed by the clause. For example:
\begin{inset}\begin{tabular}{l@{\qquad}l}
\ex{(range 1 5 \ldots)} & Lines \phantom{1} 2 3 4 \\
\ex{(:range 1 5 \ldots)} & Lines 1 2 3 4 \\
\ex{(range: 1 5 \ldots)} & Lines \phantom{1} 2 3 4 5 \\
\ex{(:range: 1 5 \ldots)} & Lines 1 2 3 4 5
\ex{(range\ \ \ 1 5\ \ \ldots)} & Lines \phantom{1} 2 3 4 \\
\ex{(:range\ \ 1 5\ \ \ldots)} & Lines 1 2 3 4 \\
\ex{(range:\ \ 1 5\ \ \ldots)} & Lines \phantom{1} 2 3 4 5 \\
\ex{(:range: 1 5\ \ \ldots)} & Lines 1 2 3 4 5
\end{tabular}
\end{inset}
@ -590,7 +544,7 @@ Here are some examples of \ex{awk} being used to process various types
of input stream.
\begin{code}
(define $ vector-ref) ; Saves typing.
(define $ nth) ; Saves typing.
;;; Print out the name and home-directory of everyone in /etc/passwd:
(let ((read-passwd (field-reader (infix-splitter ":" 7))))
@ -614,8 +568,8 @@ of input stream.
\begin{code}
;;; Read a series of integers from stdin. This expression evaluates
;;; to the number of positive numbers were read. Note our "record-reader"
;;; is the standard Scheme READ procedure.
;;; to the number of positive numbers that were read. Note our
;;; "record-reader" is the standard Scheme READ procedure.
(awk (read) (i) ((npos 0))
((> i 0) (+ npos 1)))\end{code}

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%&latex -*- latex -*-
\chapter{Changes from the previous release}
\label{sec:changes}
\newcommand{\itam}[1]{\item {#1} \\}
This section details changes that have been made in scsh since
the previous release.
Scsh is now much more robust.
All known bugs have been fixed.
There have been many improvements and extensions made.
We have also made made some incompatible changes.
The sections below briefly describe these new features and changes;
the relevant sections of the manual give the full details.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{New features}
This release incorporates several new features into scsh.
\begin{itemize}
\itam{Control of buffered I/O}
Scsh now allows you to control the buffering policy used for doing I/O
on a Scheme port.
\itam{Here-strings}
Scsh now has a new lexical feature, \verb|#<<|, that provides
the ability to enter long, multi-line string constants in scsh programs.
Such a string is called a ``here string,'' by analogy to the common
shell ``here document'' \ex{<<} redirection.
\itam{Delimited readers and read-line}
Scsh now has a powerful set of delimited readers.
These can be used to read input delimited by
a newline character (\ex{read-line}),
a blank line (\ex{read-paragraph}),
or the occurrence of any character in an arbitrary set (\ex{read-delimited}).
While these procedures can be applied to any Scheme input port,
there is native-code support for performing delimited reads on
Unix input sources, so doing block input with these procedures should be
much faster than the equivalent character-at-a-time Scheme code.
\itam{New system calls}
With the sole exception of signal handlers, scsh now has all of {\Posix}.
This release introduces
\begin{itemize}
\item \ex{select},
\item full terminal device control,
\item support for pseudo-terminal ``pty'' devices,
\item file locking,
\item process timing,
\item \ex{set-file-times},
\item \ex{seek} and \ex{tell}.
\end{itemize}
Note that having \ex{select}, pseudo-terminals, and tty device control means
that it is now possible to implement interesting network protocols, such as
telnet servers and clients, directly in Scheme.
\itam{New command-line switches}
There is a new set of command-line switches that make it possible
to write shell scripts using the {\scm} module system.
Scripts can use the new command-line switches to open dependent
modules and load dependent source code.
Scripts can also be written in the {\scm} module language,
which allows you to use it both as a standalone shell script,
and as a code module that can be loaded and used by other Scheme programs.
\itam{Static heap linking}
There is a new facility that allows you to compile a heap image
to a \ex{.o} file that can be linked with the scsh virtual machine.
This produces a standalone executable binary, makes startup time
near-instantaneous, and greatly improves memory performance---the
initial heap image is placed in the process' text pages,
where it is shared by different scsh processes, and does not occupy
space in the run-time heap.
\oops{The static heap linker was not documented and installed in time
for this release.}
\end{itemize}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Incompatible improvements}
Some features of scsh have been improved in ways that are
not backwards-compatible with previous releases.
These changes should not affect most code;
however, please note the changes and modify your code accordingly.
\begin{itemize}
\itam{New process-object data-type returned by \ex{fork}}
Previous releases were prone to fill up the kernel's process table
if a program forked large numbers of processes and subsequently failed
to use \ex{wait} to reclaim the entries in the kernel's process table.
(This is a problem in standard C environments, as well.)
Scsh 0.4 introduces a new mechanism for automatically managing subprocesses.
Processes are no longer represented by an integer process id,
which is impossible to garbage-collect, but by an
abstract process data type that encapsulates the process id.
All processes are represented using the new data structures;
see the relevant section of the manual for further details.
\itam{Better stdio/current-port synchronisation}
The \ex{(begin \ldots)} process form now does a \ex{stdio->stdports}
call before executing its body.
This means that the Scheme code in the body ``sees'' any external
redirections.
For example, it means that if a \ex{begin} form in the middle of a pipeline
performs I/O on the current input and output ports, it will be communicating
with its upstream and downstream pipes.
\Eg, this code works as intended without the need for explicit synchronisation:
\begin{verbatim}
(run (| (gunzip)
;; Kill line 1 and insert doubled-sided
;; code at head of Postscript.
(begin (read-line) ; Eat first line.
(display "%!PS-Adobe-2.0\\n")
(display "statusdict /setduplexmode known ")
(display "{statusdict begin true ")
(display "setduplexmode end} if\n")
(exec-epf (cat)))
(lpr))
(< paper.ps))\end{verbatim}
Arranging for the \ex{begin} process form to synchronise
the current I/O ports with stdio means that all process forms now
see their epf's redirections.
\itam{\ex{file-match} more robust}
The \ex{file-match} procedure now catches any error condition
signalled by a match procedure,
and treats it as if the procedure had simply returned {\sharpf},
\ie, match failure.
This means \ex{file-match} no longer gets blown out of the water by
trying to apply a function like \ex{file-directory?} to a dangling symlink,
and other related OS errors.
\itam{Standard input now unbuffered}
Scsh's startup code now makes the initial current input port
(corresponding to file descriptor 0) unbuffered.
This keeps the shell from ``stealing'' input meant for subprocesses.
However, it does slow down character-at-a-time input processing.
If you are writing a program that is tolerant of buffered input,
and wish the efficiency gains, you can reset the buffering policy
yourself.
\itam{``writeable'' now spelled ``writable''}
We inconsistently spelled \ex{file-writable?} and \ex{file-not-writable?}
in the manual and the implementation.
We have now standardised on the common spelling ``writable'' in both.
The older bindings still exist in release 0.4, but will go away in future
releases.
\itam{\protect\ex{char-set-member?} replaced}
We have de-released the \ex{char-set-member?} procedure.
The scsh 0.3 version of this procedure took arguments
in the following order:
\codex{(char-set-member? \var{char} \var{char-set})}
This argument order is in accordance with standard mathematical useage
(\ie, $x \in S$), and also consistent with the R4RS
\ex{member}, \ex{memq} and \ex{memv} procedures.
It is, however, exactly opposite from the argument order
used by the \ex{char-set-member?} in MIT Scheme's character-set library.
If we left things as they were, we risked problems with code
ported over from MIT Scheme.
On the other hand, changing to conformance with MIT Scheme meant
inconsistency with common mathematical notation and other long-standing
Scheme procedures.
Either way was bound to introduce confusion.
We've taken the approach of simply removing the \ex{char-set-member?}
procedure altogether, and replacing it with a new procedure:
\codex{(char-set-contains? \var{cset} \var{char})}
Note that the argument order is consistent with the name.
\itam{\ex{file-attributes} now \ex{file-info}}
In keeping with the general convention in scsh of naming procedures
that retrieve information about system resources \ex{\ldots-info}
(\eg, \ex{tty-info}, \ex{user-info}, \ex{group-info}),
the \ex{file-attributes} procedure is now named \ex{file-info}.
We continue to export a \ex{file-attributes} binding for the current
release, but it will go away in future releases.
\itam{Renaming of I/O synchronisation procedures}
The \ex{(stdio->stdports \var{thunk})} procedure has been
renamed \ex{with-stdio-ports*};
there is now a corresponding \ex{with-stdio-ports} special form.
The \ex{stdio->stdports} procedure is now a nullary procedure
that side-effects the current set of current I/O port bindings.
\itam{New meta-arg line-two syntax}
Scsh now uses a simplified grammar for describing command-line
arguments read by the ``meta-arg'' switch from line two of a shell script.
If you were using this feature in previous releases, the three incompatible
changes of which to be aware are:
(1) tab is no longer allowed as an argument delimiter,
(2) a run of space characters is not equivalent to a single space,
(3) empty arguments are written a different way.
\end{itemize}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Backwards-compatible improvements}
Some existing features in scsh have been improved in ways that will
not effect existing code.
\begin{itemize}
\itam{Improved error reporting}
Exception handlers that print out error messages and warnings now
print their messages on the error output port,
instead of the current output port.
Previous releases used the current output port,
a problem inherited from Scheme 48.
Previous scsh releases flushed the Scheme 48 debugging tables when
creating the standard scsh heap image.
This trimmed the size of the heap image, but made error messages much
less comprehensible.
We now retain the debugging tables.
This bloats the heap image up by about 600kb. And worth it, too.
(We also have some new techniques for eliminating the run-time memory
penalty imposed by these large heap images.
Scsh's new static-heap technology allows for this data to be linked
into the text pages of the vm's binary, where it will not be touched
by the GC or otherwise affect the memory system until it is referenced.)
Finally, scsh now generates more informative error messages for syscall
errors.
For example, a file-open error previously told you what the error was
(\eg, ``Permission denied,'' or ``No such file or directory''),
but not which file you had tried to open.
We've improved this.
\itam{Closing a port twice allowed}
Scsh used to generate an error if you attempted to close a port
that had already been closed.
This is now allowed.
The close procedure returns a boolean to indicate whether the port had
already been closed or not.
\itam{Better time precision}
The \ex{time+ticks} procedure now returns sub-second precision on OS's
that support it.
\itam{Nicer print-methods for basic data-types}
Scsh's standard record types now print more informatively.
For example, a process object includes the process id in its
printed representation: the process object for process id 2653
prints as \verb|#{proc 2653}|.
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% code.sty: -*- latex -*-
% Latex macros for a "weak" verbatim mode.
% -- like verbatim, except \, {, and } have their usual meanings.
% Environments: code, tightcode, codeaux, codebox, centercode
% Commands: \dcd, \cddollar, \cdmath, \cd, \codeallowbreaks, \codeskip, \^
% Already defined in LaTeX, but of some relevance: \#, \$, \%, \&, \_, \{, \}
% Changelog at the end of the file.
% These commands give you an environment, code, that is like verbatim
% except that you can still insert commands in the middle of the environment:
% \begin{code}
% for(x=1; x<loop_bound; x++)
% y += x^3; /* {\em Add in {\tt x} cubed} */
% \end{code}
%
% All characters are ordinary except \{}. To get \{} in your text,
% you use the commands \\, \{, and \}.
% These macros mess with the definition of the special chars (e.g., ^_~%).
% The characters \{} are left alone, so you can still have embedded commands:
% \begin{code} f(a,b,\ldots,y,z) \end{code}
% However, if your embedded commands use the formerly-special chars, as in
% \begin{code} x := x+1 /* \mbox{\em This is $y^3$} */ \end{code}
% then you lose. The $ and ^ chars are scanned in as non-specials,
% so they don't work. If the chars are scanned *outside* the code env,
% then you have no problem:
% \def\ycube{$y^3$}
% \begin{code} x := x+1 /* {\em This is \ycube} */ \end{code}
% If you must put special chars inside the code env, you do it by
% prefixing them with the special \dcd ("decode") command, that
% reverts the chars to back to special status:
% \begin{code} x := x+1 /* {\dcd\em This is $y^3$} */ \end{code}
% \dcd's scope is bounded by its enclosing braces. It is only defined within
% the code env. You can also turn on just $ with the \cddollar command;
% you can turn on just $^_ with the \cdmath command. See below.
%
% Alternatively, just use \(...\) for $...$, \sp for ^, and \sb for _.
% WARNING:
% Like \verb, you cannot put a \cd{...} inside an argument to a macro
% or a command. If you try, for example,
% \mbox{\cd{$x^y$}}
% you will lose. That is because the text "\cd{$x^y$}" gets read in
% as \mbox's argument before the \cd executes. But the \cd has to
% have a chance to run before LaTeX ever reads the $x^y$ so it can
% turn off the specialness of $ and ^. So, \cd has to appear at
% top level, not inside an argument. Similarly, you can't have
% a \cd or a \code inside a macro (Although you could use \gdef to
% define a macro *inside* a \cd, which you could then use outside.
% Don't worry about this if you don't understand it.)
% BUG: In the codebox env, the effect of a \dcd, \cddollar, or \cdmath
% command is reset at the end of each line. This can be hacked by
% messing with the \halign's preamble, if you feel up to it.
% Useage note: the initial newline after the \begin{code} or
% \begin{codebox} is eaten, but the last newline is not.
% So,
% \begin{code}
% foo
% bar
% \end{code}
% leaves one more blank line after bar than does
% \begin{code}
% foo
% bar\end{code}
% Moral: get in the habit of terminating code envs without a newline
% (as in the second example).
%
% All this stuff tweaks the meaning of space, tab, and newline.
%===============================================================================
% \cd@obeyspaces
% Turns all spaces into non-breakable spaces.
% Note: this is like \@vobeyspaces except without spurious space in defn.
% @xobeysp is basically a space; it's defined in latex.tex.
%
{\catcode`\ =\active\gdef\cd@obeyspaces{\catcode`\ =\active\let =\@xobeysp}}
% \cd@obeytabs
% Turns all tabs into 8 non-breakable spaces (which is bogus).
%
{\catcode`\^^I=\active %
\gdef\cd@obeytabs{\catcode`\^^I=\active\let^^I=\cd@tab}}
\def\cd@tab{\@xobeysp\@xobeysp\@xobeysp\@xobeysp\@xobeysp\@xobeysp\@xobeysp\@xobeysp}
% \cd@obeylines
% Turns all cr's into linebreaks. Pagebreaks are not permitted between lines.
% This is copied from lplain.tex's \obeylines, with the cr def'n changed.
%
{\catcode`\^^M=\active % these lines must end with %
\gdef\cd@obeylines{\catcode`\^^M=\active\let^^M=\cd@cr}}
% What ^M turns into. This def'n keeps blank lines from being compressed out.
\def\cd@cr{\par\penalty10000\leavevmode} % TeX magicness
%\def\cd@cr{\par\penalty10000\mbox{}} % LaTeX
% \codeallowbreaks
% Same as \cd@obeylines, except pagebreaks are allowed.
% Put this command inside a code env to allow pagebreaks.
{\catcode`\^^M=\active % these lines must end with %
\gdef\codeallowbreaks{\catcode`\^^M\active\let^^M\cd@crbr}}
%\def\cd@crbr{\leavevmode\endgraf} % What ^M turns into.
\def\cd@crbr{\par\leavevmode} % What ^M turns into.
% \cd@obeycrsp
% Turns cr's into non-breakable spaces. Used by \cd.
{\catcode`\^^M=\active % these lines must end with %
\gdef\cd@obeycrsp{\catcode`\^^M=\active\let^^M=\@xobeysp}}
% =============================================================================
% Set up code environment, in which most of the common special characters
% appearing in code are treated verbatim, namely: $&#^_~%
% \ { } are still enabled so that macros can be called in this
% environment. Use \\, \{, and \} to use these characters verbatim
% in this environment.
%
% Inside a group, you can make
% all the hacked chars special with the \dcd command
% $ special with the \cddollar command
% $^_ special with the \cdmath command.
% If you have a bunch of math $..$'s in your code env, then a global \cddollar
% or \cdmath at the beginning of the env can save a lot of trouble.
% When chars are special (e.g., after a \dcd), you can still get #$%&_{} with
% \#, \$, \%, \&, \_, \{, and \} -- this is standard LaTeX.
% Additionally, \\ gives \ inside the code env, and when \cdmath
% makes ^ special, it also defines \^ to give ^.
%The hacked characters can be made special again
% within a group by using the \dcd command.
% Note: this environment allows no breaking of lines whatsoever; not
% at spaces or hypens. To arrange for a break use the standard \- command,
% or a \discretionary{}{}{} which breaks, but inserts nothing. This is useful,
% for example for allowing hypenated identifiers to be broken, e.g.
% \def\={\discretionary{}{}{}} %optional break
% FOO-\=BAR.
\def\setupcode{\parsep=0pt\parindent=0pt%
\normalfont\ttfamily\frenchspacing\catcode``=13\@noligs%
\def\\{\char`\\}%
\let\dcd=\cd@dcd\let\cddollar=\cd@dollarspecial\let\cdmath=\cd@mathspecial%
\@makeother\$\@makeother\&\@makeother\#%
\@makeother\^\@makeother\_\@makeother\~%
\@makeother\%\cd@obeytabs\cd@obeyspaces}
% other: $&#^_~%
% left special: \{}
% unnecessary: @`'"
%% codebox, centercode
%%=============================================================================
%% The codebox env makes a box exactly as wide as it needs to be
%% (i.e., as wide as the longest line of code is). This is useful
%% if you want to center a chunk of code, or flush it right, or
%% something like that. The optional argument to the environment,
%% [t], [c], or [b], specifies how to vertically align the codebox,
%% just as with arrays or other boxes. Default is [c].
%% Must be a newline immediately after "\begin{codebox}[t]"!
{\catcode`\^^M=\active % these lines must end with %
\gdef\cd@obeycr{\catcode`\^^M=\active\let^^M=\cr}}
% If there is a [<letter>] option, then the following newline will
% be read *after* ^M is bound to \cr, so we're cool. If there isn't
% an option given (i.e., default to [c]), then the @\ifnextchar will
% gobble up the newline as it gobbles whitespace. So we insert the
% \cr explicitly. Isn't TeX fun?
\def\codebox{\leavevmode\@ifnextchar[{\@codebox}{\@codebox[c]\cr}} %]
\def\@codebox[#1]%
{\hbox\bgroup$\if #1t\vtop \else \if#1b\vbox \else \vcenter \fi\fi\bgroup%
\tabskip\z@\setupcode\cd@obeycr% just before cd@obey
\halign\bgroup##\hfil\span}
\def\endcodebox{\crcr\egroup\egroup\m@th$\egroup}
% Center the box on the page:
\newenvironment{centercode}%
{\begin{center}\begin{codebox}[c]}%
{\end{codebox}\end{center}}
%% code, codeaux, tightcode
%%=============================================================================
%% Code environment as described above. Lines are kept on one page.
%% This actually works by setting a huge penalty for breaking
%% between lines of code. Code is indented same as other displayed paras.
%% Note: to increase left margin, use \begin{codeaux}{\leftmargin=1in}.
% To allow pagebreaks, say \codeallowbreaks immediately inside the env.
% You can allow breaks at specific lines with a \pagebreak form.
%% N.B.: The \global\@ignoretrue command must be performed just inside
%% the *last* \end{...} before the following text. If not, you will
%% get an extra space on the following line. Blech.
%% This environment takes two arguments.
%% The second, required argument is the \list parameters to override the
%% \@listi... defaults.
%% - Usefully set by clients: \topsep \leftmargin
%% - Possible, but less useful: \partopsep
%% The first, optional argument is the extra \parskip glue that you get around
%% \list environments. It defaults to the value of \parskip.
\def\codeaux{\@ifnextchar[{\@codeaux}{\@codeaux[\parskip]}} %]
\def\@codeaux[#1]#2{%
\bgroup\parskip#1%
\begin{list}{}%
{\parsep\z@\rightskip\z@\listparindent\z@\itemindent\z@#2}%
\item[]\setupcode\cd@obeylines}%
\def\endcodeaux{\end{list}\leavevmode\egroup\ignorespaces\global\@ignoretrue}
%% Code env is codeaux with the default margin and spacing \list params:
\def\code{\codeaux{}} \let\endcode=\endcodeaux
%% Like code, but with no extra vertical space above and below.
\def\tightcode{\codeaux[=0pt]{\topsep\z@}}%
\let\endtightcode\endcodeaux
% {\vspace{-1\parskip}\begin{codeaux}{\partopsep\z@\topsep\z@}}%
% {\end{codeaux}\vspace{-1\parskip}}
% Reasonable separation between lines of code
\newcommand{\codeskip}{\penalty0\vspace{2ex}}
% \cd is used to build a code environment in the middle of text.
% Note: only difference from display code is that cr's are taken
% as unbreakable spaces instead of linebreaks.
\def\cd{\leavevmode\begingroup\ifmmode\let\startcode=\startmcode\else%
\let\startcode\starttcode\fi%
\setupcode\cd@obeycrsp\startcode}
\def\starttcode#1{#1\endgroup}
\def\startmcode#1{\hbox{#1}\endgroup}
% Restore $&#^_~% to their normal catcodes
% Define \^ to give the ^ char.
% \dcd points to this guy inside a code env.
\def\cd@dcd{\catcode`\$=3\catcode`\&=4\catcode`\#=6\catcode`\^=7%
\catcode`\_=8\catcode`\~=13\catcode`\%=14\def\^{\char`\^}}
% Selectively enable $, and $^_ as special.
% \cd@mathspecial also defines \^ give the ^ char.
% \cddollar and \cdmath point to these guys inside a code env.
\def\cd@dollarspecial{\catcode`\$=3}
\def\cd@mathspecial{\catcode`\$=3\catcode`\^=7\catcode`\_=8%
\def\^{\char`\^}}
% Change log:
% Started off as some macros found in C. Rich's library.
% Olin 1/90:
% Removed \makeatletter, \makeatother's -- they shouldn't be there,
% because style option files are read with makeatletter. The terminal
% makeatother screwed things up for the following style options.
% Olin 3/91:
% Rewritten.
% - Changed things so blank lines don't get compressed out (the \leavevmove
% in \cd@cr and \cd@crwb).
% - Changed names to somewhat less horrible choices.
% - Added lots of doc, so casual hackers can more easily mess with all this.
% - Removed `'"@ from the set of hacked chars, since they are already
% non-special.
% - Removed the bigcode env, which effect can be had with the \codeallowbreaks
% command.
% - Removed the \@noligs command, since it's already defined in latex.tex.
% - Win big with the new \dcd, \cddollar, and \cdmath commands.
% - Now, *only* the chars \{} are special inside the code env. If you need
% more, use the \dcd command inside a group.
% - \cd now works inside math mode. (But if you use it in a superscript,
% it still comes out full size. You must explicitly put a \scriptsize\tt
% inside the \cd: $x^{\cd{\scriptsize\tt...}}$. A \leavevmode was added
% so that if you begin a paragraph with a \cd{...}, TeX realises you
% are starting a paragraph.
% - Added the codebox env. Tricky bit involving the first line hacked
% with help from David Long.
% Olin 8/94
% Changed the font commands for LaTeX2e.

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% Loads cmtt fonts in on \tt. -*- latex -*-
% I prefer these to the Courier fonts that latex gives you w/postscript styles.
% Courier is too spidery and too wide -- it's hard to get 80 chars on a line.
% -Olin
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\makeatletter
\def\ie{\mbox{\emph{i.e.}}} % \mbox keeps the last period from
\def\Ie{\mbox{\emph{I.e.}}} % looking like an end-of-sentence.
\def\eg{\mbox{\emph{e.g.}}}
\def\Eg{\mbox{\emph{E.g.}}}
\def\etc{{\em etc.}}
\def\Lisp{\textsc{Lisp}}
\def\CommonLisp{\textsc{Common Lisp}}
\def\Ascii{\textsc{Ascii}}
\def\Ansi{\textsc{Ansi}}
\def\Unix{{Unix}} % Not smallcaps, according to Bart.
\def\Scheme{{Scheme}}
\def\scm{{Scheme 48}}
\def\R4RS{R4RS}
\def\Posix{\textsc{Posix}}
\def\sharpf{\normalfont\texttt{\#f}}
\def\sharpt{\normalfont\texttt{\#t}}
\newcommand{\synteq}{\textnormal{::=}}
\def\maketildeother{\catcode`\~=12}
\def\maketildeactive{\catcode`\~=13}
\def\~{\char`\~}
% One-line code examples
%\newcommand{\codex}[1]% One line, centred. Tight spacing.
% {$$\abovedisplayskip=.75ex plus 1ex minus .5ex%
% \belowdisplayskip=\abovedisplayskip%
% \abovedisplayshortskip=0ex plus .5ex%
% \belowdisplayshortskip=\abovedisplayshortskip%
% \hbox{\ttt #1}$$}
%\newcommand{\codex}[1]{\begin{tightinset}\ex{#1}\end{tightinset}\ignorespaces}
\newcommand{\codex}[1]{\begin{leftinset}\ex{#1}\end{leftinset}\ignorespaces}
\def\widecode{\codeaux{\leftmargin=0pt\topsep=0pt}}
\def\endwidecode{\endcodeaux}
% For multiletter vars in math mode:
\newcommand{\var}[1]{\mbox{\frenchspacing\it{#1}}}
\newcommand{\vari}[2]{${\mbox{\it{#1}}}_{#2}$}
%% What you frequently want when you say \tt:
\def\ttchars{\catcode``=13\@noligs\frenchspacing}
\def\ttt{\normalfont\ttfamily\ttchars}
% Works in math mode; all special chars remain special; cheaper than \cd.
% Will not be correct size in super and subscripts, though.
\newcommand{\ex}[1]{{\normalfont\texttt{\ttchars #1}}}
\newenvironment{inset}
{\bgroup\parskip=1ex plus 1ex\begin{list}{}%
{\topsep=0pt\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item[]}%
{\end{list}\leavevmode\egroup\global\@ignoretrue}
\newenvironment{leftinset}
{\bgroup\parskip=1ex plus 1ex\begin{list}{}%
{\topsep=0pt}%
\item[]}%
{\end{list}\leavevmode\egroup\global\@ignoretrue}
\newenvironment{tightinset}
{\bgroup\parskip=0pt\begin{list}{}%
{\topsep=0pt\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item[]}%
{\end{list}\leavevmode\egroup\global\@ignoretrue}
\newenvironment{tightleftinset}
{\bgroup\parskip=0pt\begin{list}{}%
{\topsep=0pt}%
\item[]}%
{\end{list}\leavevmode\egroup\global\@ignoretrue}
\long\def\remark#1{\bgroup\small\begin{quote}\textsl{Remark: } #1\end{quote}\egroup}
\newenvironment{remarkenv}{\bgroup\small\begin{quote}\textsl{Remark: }}%
{\end{quote}\egroup}
\newcommand{\oops}[1]{\bgroup\small\begin{quote}\textsl{Oops: } #1\end{quote}\egroup}
\newcommand{\note}[1]{\{Note #1\}}
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% Document style option "draftfooter"
% -- usage: \documentstyle[...,draftfooter,...]{...}
% -- puts "DRAFT" with date and time in page footer
%
% Olin Shivers 1/17/94
% - Hacked from code I used in my dissertation and from code in a
% drafthead.sty package written by Stephen Page sdpage@uk.ac.oxford.prg.
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------
%
% compute the time in hours and minutes; make new variables \timehh and \timemm
%
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\divide\timehh by 60 \timemm=\time
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%
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\def\drafttime{%
{\protect\small\sl\today\ -- \ifnum\timehh<10 0\fi%
\number\timehh\,:\,\ifnum\timemm<10 0\fi\number\timemm}}
\def\drafttimer{\protect\makebox[0pt][r]{\drafttime}}
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\def\thepagel{\protect\makebox[0pt][l]{\rm\thepage}}
\def\thepager{\protect\makebox[0pt][r]{\rm\thepage}}
% Header is empty.
% Footer is "date DRAFT pageno"
\def\ps@plain{
\let\@mkboth\@gobbletwo
\let\@oddhead\@empty \let\@evenhead\@empty
\def\@oddfoot{\reset@font\rm\drafttimel\hfil\draftbox\hfil\thepager}
\if@twoside
\def\@evenfoot{\reset@font\rm\thepagel\hfil\draftbox\hfil\drafttimer}
\else \let\@evenfoot\@oddfoot
\fi
}
% Aux macro -- sets footer to be "date DRAFT".
\def\@draftfooters{
\def\@oddfoot{\reset@font\rm\drafttimel\hfil\draftbox}
\if@twoside
\def\@evenfoot{\reset@font\rm\draftbox\hfil\drafttimer}
\else \let\@evenfoot\@oddfoot
\fi
}
% Header is empty.
% Footer is "date DRAFT".
\def\ps@empty{
\let\@mkboth\@gobbletwo
\let\@oddhead\@empty \let\@evenhead\@empty
\@draftfooters
}
% Header is defined by the document style (article, book, etc.).
% Footer is "date DRAFT".
\let\@draftoldhead\ps@headings
\def\ps@headings{
\@draftoldhead % Do the default \pagestyle{headings} stuff.
\@draftfooters % Then define the draft footers:
}
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%&latex -*- latex -*-
\title{Scsh Reference Manual}
\subtitle{For Scsh release 0.3 \\
December 25, 1994}
\subtitle{For scsh release 0.4}
% December 25, 1994
\author{Olin Shivers and Brian D.~Carlstrom}
\date{12/94}
\date{October 31, 1995}
\maketitle
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% headings.tex -*- latex -*-
% Quieter headings that the ones used in article.sty.
% This is not a style option. Don't say [headings].
% Instead, say \input{headings} after the \documentstyle.
% -Olin 7/91
\makeatletter
\def\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}{-3.5ex plus -1ex minus
-.2ex}{2.3ex plus .2ex}{\large\normalfont\bfseries}}
\def\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}{-3.25ex plus -1ex minus
-.2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}{\normalsize\normalfont\bfseries}}
\def\subsubsection{\@startsection{subsubsection}{3}{\z@}{-3.25ex plus
-1ex minus -.2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}{\normalsize\normalfont\bfseries}}
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This is a draft manual for scsh, a {\Unix} shell that is embedded within
{\Scheme}.
Scsh comes built on top of {\scm}, and it has two components:
Scsh is a Scheme system designed for writing useful standalone Unix
programs and shell scripts---it spans a wide range of application,
from ``script'' applications usually handled with perl or sh,
to more standard systems applications usually written in C.
Scsh comes built on top of {\scm}, and has two components:
a process notation for running programs and setting up pipelines
and redirections,
and a complete syscall library for low-level access to the OS.
and a complete syscall library for low-level access to the operating system.
This manual gives a complete description of scsh.
A general discussion of the design principles behind scsh can be found
in a companion paper, ``A Scheme Shell.''
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Obtaining scsh}
Scsh is distributed via net publication.
We place new releases at well-known network sites,
and allow them to propagate from there.
We currently release scsh to the following Internet sites:
\begin{inset}\begin{flushleft}
\ex{ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/su/} \\
\ex{http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scsh/scsh.html}
\ex{http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/} \\
\end{flushleft}
\end{inset}
These sites are
the MIT Project Mac ftp server,
the Scheme Shell home page, and
the Indiana Scheme Repository home page,
respectively.
Each should have a compressed tar file of the entire scsh release,
which includes all the source code and the manual,
and a separate file containing just this manual in Postscript form,
for those who simply wish to read about the system.
However, nothing is certain for long on the Net.
Probably the best way to get a copy of scsh is to use a network
resource-discovery tool, such as archie,
to find ftp servers storing scsh tar files.
Take the set of sites storing the most recent release of scsh,
choose one close to your site, and download the tar file.
\section{Building scsh}
Scsh currently runs on a fairly large set of Unix systems, including
Linux, NetBSD, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, NeXTSTEP, Irix, and HP-UX.
We use the Gnu project's autoconfig tool to generate self-configuring
shell scripts that customise the scsh Makefile for different OS variants.
This means that if you use one of the common Unix implementations,
building scsh should require exactly the following steps:
\begin{inset}
\begin{tabular}{l@{\qquad}l}
\ex{gunzip scsh-0.4.0.tar.gz} & \emph{Uncompress the release tar file.} \\
\ex{untar xfv scsh-0.4.0.tar} & \emph{Unpack the source code.} \\
\ex{cd scsh-0.4.0} & \emph{Move to the source directory.} \\
\ex{./configure} & \emph{Examine host; build Makefile.} \\
\ex{make} & \emph{Build system.}
\end{tabular}
\end{inset}
When you are done, you should have a virtual machine compiled in
file \ex{scshvm}, and a heap image in file \ex{scsh/scsh.image}.
Typing
\begin{code}
make install
\end{code}
will install these programs in your installation directory
(by default, \ex{/usr/local}), along with a small stub startup
binary, \ex{scsh}.
If you don't have the patience to do this, you can start up
a Scheme shell immediately after the initial make by simply
saying
\codex{./scshvm -o ./scshvm -i scsh/scsh.image}
See chapter~\ref{chapt:running} for full details on installation
locations and startup options.
It is not too difficult to port scsh to another Unix platform if your
OS is not supported by the current release.
See the release notes for more details on how to do this.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Caveats}
It is important to note what scsh is \emph{not}, as well as what it is.
@ -20,13 +92,13 @@ Scsh, in the current release, is primarily designed for the writing of
shell scripts---programming.
It is not a very comfortable system for interactive command use:
the current release lacks job control, command-line editing, a terse,
convenient command syntax, and it can not be made to read in an initialisation
convenient command syntax, and it does not read in an initialisation
file analogous to \ex{.login} or \ex{.profile}.
We hope to address all of these problems in future releases;
We hope to address all of these issues in future releases;
we even have designs for several of these features;
but the system as-released does not currently address these issues.
but the system as-released does not currently provide these features.
As a first release, the system has some rough edges.
In the current release, the system has some rough edges.
It is quite slow to start up; we hope to fix that by providing
a static-heap linker in the next release.
For now, the initial image load takes about a cpu second.
@ -37,6 +109,7 @@ using markup, so we can generate html, info nodes, and {\TeX} output from
the single source without having to deal with Texinfo.
But it's all there is, for now.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Naming conventions}
Scsh follows a general naming scheme that consistently employs a set of
abbreviations.
@ -90,11 +163,11 @@ Some of the common ones are:
\item[\ex{create-}]
Procedures that create objects in the file system (files, directories,
temp files, fifos, etc), begin with \ex{create-\ldots}.
temp files, fifos, \etc), begin with \ex{create-\ldots}.
\item [\ex{delete-}]
Procedures that delete objects from the file system (files,
directories, temp files, fifos, etc), begin with \ex{delete-\ldots}.
directories, temp files, fifos, \etc), begin with \ex{delete-\ldots}.
\item[ \ex{\var{record}:\var{field}} ]
Procedures that access fields of a record are usually written
@ -118,11 +191,13 @@ For example, the various {\Unix} signal integers have the names
\ex{signal/cont}, \ex{signal/kill}, \ex{signal/int}, \ex{signal/hup},
and so forth.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Lexical issues}
Scsh's lexical syntax is just {\R4RS} {\Scheme}, with the following
exceptions.
Scsh differs from {\R4RS} {\Scheme} in the following ways:
\subsection{Extended symbol syntax}
Scsh's symbol syntax differs from {\R4RS} {\Scheme} in the following ways:
\begin{itemize}
\item In scsh, symbol case is preserved by \ex{read} and is significant on
symbol comparison. This means
@ -132,10 +207,7 @@ Scsh differs from {\R4RS} {\Scheme} in the following ways:
\item ``\ex{-}'' and ``\ex{+}'' are allowed to begin symbols.
So the following are legitimate symbols:
\codex{-O2 -geometry +Wn}
\end{itemize}
%
Scsh also extends {\R4RS} lexical syntax in the following ways:
\begin{itemize}
\item ``\ex{|}'' and ``\ex{.}'' are symbol constituents.
This allows \ex{|} for the pipe symbol, and \ex{..} for the parent-directory
symbol. (Of course, ``\ex{.}'' alone is not a symbol, but a
@ -144,16 +216,119 @@ Scsh also extends {\R4RS} lexical syntax in the following ways:
\item A symbol may begin with a digit.
So the following are legitimate symbols:
\codex{9x15 80x36-3+440}
\item Strings are allowed to contain the {\Ansi} C escape sequences
such as \verb|\n| and \verb|\161|.
\item \ex{\#!} is a comment read-macro similar to \ex{;}.
This is used to write shell scripts. When the reader
encounters \ex{\#!}, it skips characters until it finds
the sequence new\-line/{\ob}ex\-cla\-ma\-tion-{\ob}point/{\ob}sharp-{\ob}sign/{\ob}new\-line.
\end{itemize}
\subsection{Extended string syntax}
Scsh strings are allowed to contain the {\Ansi} C escape sequences
such as \verb|\n| and \verb|\161|.
\subsection{Block comments and executable interpreter-triggers}
Scsh allows source files to begin with a header of the form
\codex{\#!/usr/local/bin/scsh -s}
The Unix operating system treats source files beginning with the headers
of this form specially;
they can be directly executed by the operating system
(see chapter~\ref{chapt:running} for information on how to use this feature).
The scsh interpreter ignores this special header by treating \ex{\#!} as a
comment marker similar to \ex{;}.
When the scsh reader encounters \ex{\#!}, it skips characters until it finds
the closing sequence
new\-line/{\ob}ex\-cla\-ma\-tion-{\ob}point/{\ob}sharp-{\ob}sign/{\ob}new\-line.
Although the form of the \ex{\#!} read-macro was chosen to support
interpreter-triggers for executable Unix scripts,
it is a general block-comment sequence and can be used as such
anywhere in a scsh program.
\subsection{Here-strings}
The read macro \ex{\#<} is used to introduce ``here-strings''
in programs, similar to the \ex{<<} ``here document'' redirections
provided by sh and csh.
There are two kinds of here-string, character-delimited and line-delimited;
they are both introduced by the \ex{\#<} sequence.
\subsubsection{Character-delimited here-strings}
A \emph{character-delimited} here-string has the form
\codex{\#<\emph{x}...stuff...\emph{x}}
where \emph{x} is any single character
(except \ex{<}, see below),
which is used to delimit the string bounds.
Some examples:
\begin{inset}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Here-string syntax & Ordinary string syntax \\ \hline
\verb:#<|Hello, world.|: & \verb:"Hello, world.": \\
\verb:#<!"Ouch," he said.!: & \verb:"\"Ouch,\" he said.":
\end{tabular}
\end{inset}
%
There is no interpretation of characters within the here-string;
the characters are all copied verbatim.
\subsubsection{Line-delimited here-strings}
If the sequence begins "\ex{\#<<}" then it introduces a \emph{line-delimited}
here-string.
These are similar to the ``here documents'' of sh and csh.
Line-delimited here-strings are delimited by the rest of the text line that
follows the "\ex{\#<<}" sequence.
For example:
\begin{code}
#<<FOO
Hello, there.
This is read by Scheme as a string,
terminated by the first occurrence
of newline-F-O-O-newline or newline-F-O-O-eof.
FOO\end{code}
%
Thus,
\begin{code}
#<<foo
Hello, world.
foo\end{code}
%
is the same thing as
\codex{"Hello, world."}
Line-delimited here-strings are useful for writing down long, constant
strings---such as long, multi-line \ex{format} strings,
or arguments to Unix programs, \eg,
\begin{code}
;; Free up some disk space for my netnews files.
(run (csh -c #<<EOF
cd /urops
rm -rf *
echo All done.
EOF
))\end{code}
The advantage they have over the double-quote syntax
(\eg, \ex{"Hello, world."})
is that there is no need to backslash-quote special characters internal
to the string, such as the double-quote or backslash characters.
The detailed syntax of line-delimited here-strings is as follows.
The characters "\ex{\#<<}" begin the here-string.
The characters between the "\ex{\#<<}" and the next newline are the
\emph{delimiter line}.
All characters between the "\ex{\#<<}" and the next newline comprise the
delimiter line---including any white space.
The body of the string begins on the following line,
and is terminated by a line of text which exactly matches the
delimiter line.
This terminating line can be ended by either a newline or end-of-file.
Absolutely no interpretation is done on the input string.
Control characters, white space, quotes, backslash---everything
is copied as-is.
The newline immediately preceding the terminating delimiter line is
not included in the result string
(leave an extra blank line if you need to put a final
newline in the here-string---see the example above).
If EOF is encountered before reading the end of the here-string,
an error is signalled.
\subsection{Dot}
It is unfortunate that the single-dot token, ``\ex{.}'', is both
a fundamental {\Unix} file name and a deep, primitive syntactic token
in {\Scheme}---it means the following will not parse correctly in scsh:
@ -161,6 +336,76 @@ in {\Scheme}---it means the following will not parse correctly in scsh:
You must instead quote the dot:
\codex{(run/strings (find "." -name *.c -print))}
When you write shell scripts that manipulate the file system,
keep in mind the special status of the dot token.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Record types and the \texttt{define-record} form}
\label{sec:defrec}
\index{define-record@\texttt{define-record}}
Scsh's interfaces occasionally provide data in structured record types;
an example is the \ex{file-info} record whose various fields describe the size,
protection, last date of modification, and other pertinent data for a
particular file.
These record types are described in this manual using the \ex{define-record}
notation, which looks like the following:
%
\begin{code}
(define-record ship
x
y
(size 100))\end{code}
%
This form defines a \var{ship} record, with three fields:
its x and y coordinates, and its size.
The values of the \var{x} and \var{y} fields are specified as parameters
to the ship-building procedure, \ex{(make-ship \var{x} \var{y})},
and the \var{size} field is initialised to 100.
All told, the \ex{define-record} form above defines the following procedures:
%
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|ll|}
\multicolumn{1}{l}{Procedure} & \multicolumn{1}{l}{Definition} \\
\hline
(make-ship \var{x} \var{y}) & Create a new \var{ship} record. \\
\hline
(ship:x \var{ship}) & Retrieve the \var{x} field. \\
(ship:y \var{ship}) & Retrieve the \var{y} field. \\
(ship:size \var{ship}) & Retrieve the \var{size} field. \\
\hline
(set-ship:x \var{ship} \var{new-x}) & Assign the \var{x} field. \\
(set-ship:y \var{ship} \var{new-y}) & Assign the \var{x} field. \\
(set-ship:size \var{ship} \var{new-size}) & Assign the \var{size} field. \\
\hline
(ship? \var{object}) & Type predicate. \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
%
An implementation of \ex{define-record} is available as a macro for Scheme
programmers to define their own record types;
the syntax is accessed by opening the package \ex{defrec-package}, which
exports the single syntax form \ex{define-record}.
You must open this package to access the form.
Scsh does not export a record-definition package by default as there are
several from which to choose.
Besides the \ex{define-record} macro, which Shivers prefers\footnote{He wrote
it.}, you might instead wish to employ the notationally-distinct
\ex{define-record-type} macro that Jonathan Rees
prefers,\footnote{He wrote it.}
or the identically named but wholly different \ex{define-record-type}
macro that Richard Kelsey prefers.\footnote{He wrote it.}
The former can be found in file \ex{rts/jar-defrecord.scm} and package
\ex{define-record-types}; the latter can be found in file
\ex{big/defrecord.scm} and package \ex{defrecord}.
Alternatively, you may define your own, of course.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{A word about {\Unix} standards}
``The wonderful thing about {\Unix} standards is that there are so many
to choose from.''
@ -185,5 +430,8 @@ supports all of it.
The guerilla PC {\Unix} implementations that have been springing up on
the net (\eg, NetBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, and so forth) are only recently coming
into compliance with the standard---although they are getting there.
We've found a few small problems with NeXTSTEP's {\Posix} support that
we had to work around.
We have been able to implement scsh completely on all of these systems,
however---the single exception is NeXTSTEP, whose buggy {\Posix} libraries
restricts us to partial support (these lacunae are indicated where relevant
in the rest of the manual).\footnote{Feel like porting scsh from {\Posix} to
NeXT's BSD API? Send us your fixes; we'll fold them in.}

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%&latex -*- latex -*-
% This is the reference manual for the Scheme Shell.
\documentclass[twoside]{report}
\usepackage{code,boxedminipage,draftfooters,makeidx,palatino,ct,
headings,mantitle,array,matter,mysize10}
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\parskip = 3pt plus 3pt
\sloppy
\input{decls}
\makeindex
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\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\include{front}
\mainmatter
\include{intro}
\include{procnotation}
\include{syscalls}
\include{network}
\include{strings}
\include{rdelim}
\include{awk}
\include{miscprocs}
\include{running}
\include{changes}
\include{todo}
\backmatter
\printindex
\end{document}
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\chapter{Miscellaneous routines}
\section{Integer bitwise ops}
\label{sec:bitwise}
\defun{arithmetic-shift} {i j} \integer
\defunx {bitwise-and} {i j} \integer
\defunx {bitwise-ior} {i j} \integer
@ -39,4 +40,6 @@ from the lists returned by the field-readers (chapter~\ref{chapt:fr-awk}).
and want to be able to recover your shell state, you can
fork off a subshell with the following form:
\codex{(run (begin (repl)))}
{\ldots}or, rephrased for the proceduralists:
\codex{(wait (fork repl))}
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@ -9,23 +9,21 @@ standard).
However, Berkeley sockets are a \emph{de facto} standard,
being found on most Unix workstations and PC operating systems.
Future releases of scsh will contain more high-level support for
networking applications.
We have Scheme implementations for the ftp, telnet, smtp, finger, and
http protocols, as well as an html parser.
When this code is included in a future release, this chapter
will describe the interfaces.
We are also contemplating a tail-recursive RPC mechanism,
but have done no development work.
It is fairly straightforward to add higher-level network protocols
such as smtp, telnet, or http on top of the the basic socket-level
support scsh provides.
The Scheme Underground has also released a network library with
many of these protocols as a companion to the current release of scsh.
See this code for examples showing the use of the sockets interface.
\section{High-level interface}
For convenience, and too avoid some of the messy details of the socket
For convenience, and to avoid some of the messy details of the socket
interface, we provide a high level socket interface. These routines
attempt to make it easy to write simple clients and servers without
having to think of many of the details of initiating socket connections.
We welcome suggested improvements to this interface, including better
names, which right now are solely descriptions of the procedure's action..
names, which right now are solely descriptions of the procedure's action.
This might be fine for people who already understand sockets,
but does not help the new networking programmer.
@ -184,8 +182,7 @@ than an empty string for addresses in the {\Unix} address-family.
The procedures in this section are presented in the order in which a
typical program will use them. Consult a text on network systems
programming for more information on sockets.
\footnote{
programming for more information on sockets.\footnote{
Some recommended ones are:
\begin{itemize}
@ -273,12 +270,18 @@ shutdown/sends+receives\end{code}
\section{Performing input and output on sockets}
\defun {receive-message} {socket length [flags]} {[string-or-\sharpf socket-address]}
\defunx {receive-message!} {socket string [start] [end] [flags]} {[count-or-\sharpf socket-address]}
\defunx {receive-message/partial} {socket length [flags]} {[string-or-\sharpf socket-address]}
\defunx {receive-message!/partial} {socket string [start] [end] [flags]} {[count-or-\sharpf socket-address]}
\defun {send-message} {socket string [start] [end] [flags] [socket-address]} \undefined
\defunx {send-message/partial} {socket string [start] [end] [flags] [socket-address]} {count}
\dfnix {receive-message!} {socket string [start] [end] [flags]}
{[count-or-\sharpf socket-address]}{procedure}
{receive-message"!@\texttt{receive-message"!}}
\defunx {receive-message/partial} {socket length [flags]}
{[string-or-\sharpf socket-address]}
\dfnix {receive-message!/partial} {socket string [start] [end] [flags]}
{[count-or-\sharpf socket-address]}{procedure}
{receive-message"!/partial@\texttt{receive-message"!/partial}}
\defun {send-message} {socket string [start] [end] [flags] [socket-address]}
\undefined
\defunx {send-message/partial}
{socket string [start] [end] [flags] [socket-address]} {count}
\begin{desc}
For most uses, standard input and output routines such as

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@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ It is equivalent to the three redirections:
(= 2 ,(error-output-port))\end{code}
%
The redirections are done in the indicated order. This will cause an error if
the one of current i/o ports isn't a {\Unix} port (\eg, if one is a string
one of the current i/o ports isn't a {\Unix} port (\eg, if one is a string
port).
This {\Scheme}/{\Unix} i/o synchronisation can also be had in {\Scheme} code
(as opposed to a redirection spec) with the \ex{(stdports->stdio)}
@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ The second clause \ex{(3 1)} causes \vari{pf}{\!1}'s file descriptor 3 to be
connected to \vari{pf}{\!2}'s file descriptor 1.
%---this is unusual, and not expected to occur very often.
The \ex{begin} process form does a \ex{stdio->stdports} synchronisation
in the child process before executing the body of the form.
This guarantees that the \ex{begin} form, like all other process forms,
``sees'' the effects of any associated I/O redirections.
Note that {\R4RS} does not specify whether or not \ex{|} and \ex{|+}
are readable symbols. Scsh does.
@ -185,12 +190,13 @@ There are three basic {\Scheme} forms that use extended process forms:
\dfnx {\&} {. \var{epf}} {\integer} {syntax}
\dfnx {run} {. \var{epf}} {\integer} {syntax}
\begin{desc}
\index{exec-epf} \index{\&} \index{run}
The \ex{(exec-epf . \var{epf})} form nukes the current process: it establishes
the i/o redirections and then overlays the current process with the requested
computation.
The \ex{(\& . \var{epf})} form is similar, except that the process is forked
off in background. The form returns the subprocess' pid.
off in background. The form returns the subprocess' process object.
The \ex{(run . \var{epf})} form runs the process in foreground:
after forking off the computation, it waits for the subprocess to exit,
@ -235,7 +241,7 @@ Having a solid procedural foundation also allows for general notational
experimentation using {\Scheme}'s macros.
For example, the programmer can build his own pipeline notation on top of the
\ex{fork} and \ex{fork/pipe} procedures.
Chapter~\ref{chapter:syscalls} gives the full story on all the procedures
Chapter~\ref{chapt:syscalls} gives the full story on all the procedures
in the syscall library.
\subsection{Interfacing process output to {\Scheme}}
@ -349,23 +355,27 @@ for manipulating processes.
\subsection{Pids and ports together}
\dfn {run/port+pid} {. \var{epf}} {[port fixnum]} {syntax}
\defunx {run/port+pid*} {thunk} {[port fixnum]}
\dfn {run/port+proc} {. \var{epf}} {[port proc]} {syntax}
\defunx {run/port+proc*} {thunk} {[port proc]}
\begin{desc}
This special form and its analogous procedure can be used
if the programmer also wishes access to the process' pid, exit status,
or other information.
They both fork off a subprocess, returning two values:
a port open on the process' stdout, and the subprocess's pid.
a port open on the process' stdout (and current output port),
and the subprocess's process object.
A process object encapsulates the subprocess' process id and exit code;
it is the value passed to the \ex{wait} system call.
For example, to uncompress a tech report, reading the uncompressed
data into scsh, and also be able to track the exit status of
the decompression process, use the following:
\begin{code}
(receive (port pid) (run/port+pid (zcat tr91-145.tex.Z))
(receive (port child) (run/port+proc (zcat tr91-145.tex.Z))
(let* ((paper (port->string port))
(status (wait pid)))
{\rm\ldots{}use \ex{paper}, \ex{status}, and \ex{pid} here\ldots}))\end{code}
(status (wait child)))
{\rm\ldots{}use \ex{paper}, \ex{status}, and \ex{child} here\ldots}))\end{code}
%
Note that you must \emph{first} do the \ex{port->string} and
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%&latex -*- latex -*-
\chapter{Reading delimited strings}
\label{chapt:rdelim}
Scsh provides a set of procedures that read delimited strings from
input ports.
There are procedures to read a single line of text
(terminated by a newline character),
a single paragraph (terminated by a blank line),
and general delimited strings
(terminated by a character belonging to an arbitrary character set).
These procedures can be applied to any Scheme input port.
However, the scsh virtual machine has native-code support for performing
delimited reads on Unix ports, and these input operations should be
particularly fast---much faster than doing the equivalent character-at-a-time
operation from Scheme code.
All of the delimited input operations described below take a \ex{handle-delim}
parameter, which determines what the procedure does with the terminating
delimiter character.
There are four possible choices for a \ex{handle-delim} parameter:
\begin{inset}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline
\ex{handle-delim} & Meaning \\ \hline\hline
\ex{'trim} & Ignore delimiter character. \\
\ex{'peek} & Leave delimiter character in input stream. \\
\ex{'concat} & Append delimiter character to returned value. \\
\ex{'split} & Return delimiter as second value. \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{inset}
The last three cases allow the programmer to distinguish between strings
that are terminated by a delimiter character, and strings that are
terminated by an end-of-file.
\begin{defundesc} {read-line} {[port handle-newline]} {{\str} or eof-object}
Reads and returns one line of text; on eof, returns the eof object.
A line is terminated by newline or eof.
\var{handle-newline} determines what \ex{read-line} does with the
newline or EOF that terminates the line; it takes the general set
of values described for the general \ex{handle-delim} case above,
and defaults to \ex{'trim} (discard the newline).
Using this argument allows one to tell whether or not the last line of
input in a file is newline terminated.
\end{defundesc}
\defun{read-paragraph} {[port handle-delim]} {{\str} or eof}
\begin{desc}
This procedure skips blank lines,
then reads text from a port until a blank line or eof is found.
A ``blank line'' is a (possibly empty) line composed only of white space.
The \var{handle-delim} parameter determines how the terminating
blank line is handled.
It is described above, and defaults to \ex{'trim}.
The \ex{'peek} option is not available.
\end{desc}
The following procedures read in strings from ports delimited by characters
belonging to a specific set.
See section~\ref{sec:char-sets} for information on character set manipulation.
\defun{read-delimited}{char-set [port handle-delim]} {{\str} or eof}
\begin{desc}
Read until we encounter one of the chars in \var{char-set} or eof.
The \var{handle-delim} parameter determines how the terminating character
is handled. It is described above, and defaults to \ex{'peek}.
The \var{char-set} argument may be a charset, a string, a character, or a
character predicate; it is coerced to a charset.
\end{desc}
\dfni{read-delimited!} {char-set buf [port handle-delim start end]}
{nchars or eof or \#f}{procedure}
{read-delimited"!@\texttt{read-delimited"!}}
\begin{desc}
A side-effecting variant of \ex{read-delimited}.
The data is written into the string \var{buf} at the indices in the
half-open interval $[\var{start},\var{end})$; the default interval is the
whole string: $\var{start}=0$ and $\var{end}=\ex{(string-length
\var{buf})}$. The values of \var{start} and \var{end} must specify a
well-defined interval in \var{str}, \ie, $0 \le \var{start} \le \var{end}
\le \ex{(string-length \var{buf})}$.
It returns \var{nbytes}, the number of bytes read. If the buffer filled up
without a delimiter character being found, \ex{\#f} is returned. If
the port is at eof when the read starts, the eof object is returned.
If an integer is returned (\ie, the read is successfully terminated by
reading a delimiter character), then the \var{handle-delim} parameter
determines how the terminating character is handled.
It is described above, and defaults to \ex{'peek}.
\end{desc}
\dfni{\%read-delimited!} {char-set buf gobble? [port start end]}
{[char-or-eof-or-\#f \integer]}{procedure}
{"%read-delimited"!@\verb:"%read-delimited"!:}
\begin{desc}
This low-level delimited reader uses an alternate interface.
It returns two values: \var{terminator} and \var{num-read}.
\begin{description}
\item [terminator]
A value describing why the read was terminated:
\begin{flushleft}
\begin{tabular}{l@{\qquad$\Rightarrow$\qquad}l}
Character or eof-object & Read terminated by this value. \\
\ex{\#f} & Filled buffer without finding a delimiter.
\end{tabular}
\end{flushleft}
\item [num-read]
Number of characters read into \var{buf}.
\end{description}
If the read is successfully terminated by reading a delimiter character,
then the \var{gobble?} parameter determines what to do with the terminating
character.
If true, the character is removed from the input stream;
if false, the character is left in the input stream where a subsequent
read operation will retrieve it.
In either case, the character is also the first value returned by
the procedure call.
\end{desc}
%Note:
%- Invariant: TERMINATOR = #f => NUM-READ = END - START.
%- Invariant: TERMINATOR = eof-object and NUM-READ = 0 => at EOF.
%- When determining the TERMINATOR return value, ties are broken
% favoring character or the eof-object over #f. That is, if the buffer
% fills up, %READ-DELIMITED! will peek at one more character from the
% input stream to determine if it terminates the input. If so, that
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%&latex -*- latex -*-
\chapter{Running scsh}
\label{chapt:running}
Scsh is currently implemented on top of {\scm}, a freely-available
{\Scheme} implementation written by Jonathan Rees and Richard Kelsey.
{\scm} uses a byte-code interpreter for good code density, portability
and medium efficiency. It is {\R4RS}. The version on top of which scsh is
currently built (0.36) lacks floating point.
and medium efficiency. It is {\R4RS}.
It also has a module system designed by Jonathan Rees.
Scsh's design is not {\scm} specific, although the current implementation
is necessarily so. Scsh is intended to be implementable in other {\Scheme}
implementations---although such a port may require some work.
The {\scm} vm that scsh uses is a specially modified version;
is necessarily so.
Scsh is intended to be implementable in other {\Scheme} implementations.
The {\scm} virtual machine that scsh uses is a specially modified version;
standard {\scm} virtual machines cannot be used with the scsh heap image.
There are several different ways to invoke scsh.
You can run it as an interactive Scheme system, with a standard
read-eval-print interaction loop.
Scsh can also be invoked as the interpreter for a shell script by putting
a ``\verb|#!/usr/local/bin/scsh -s|'' line at the top of the shell script.
Descending a level, it is also possible to invoke the underlying virtual
machine byte-code interpreter directly on dumped heap images.
Scsh programs can be pre-compiled to byte-codes and dumped as raw,
binary heap images.
Writing heap images strips out unused portions of the scsh runtime
(such as the compiler, the debugger, and other complex subsystems),
reducing memory demands and saving loading and compilation times.
The heap image format allows for an initial \verb|#!/usr/local/lib/scsh/scshvm| trigger
on the first line of the image, making heap images directly executable as
another kind of shell script.
Finally, scsh's static linker system allows dumped heap images to be compiled
to a raw Unix a.out(5) format, which can be linked into the text section
of the vm binary.
This produces a true Unix executable binary file.
Since the byte codes comprising the program are in the file's text section,
they are not traced or copied by the garbage collector, do not occupy space
in the vm's heap, and do not need to be loaded and linked at startup time.
This reduces the program's startup time, memory requirements,
and paging overhead.
This chapter will cover these various ways of invoking scsh programs.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Scsh command-line switches}
When the scsh top-level starts up, it scans the command line
for switches that control its behaviour.
These arguments are removed from the command line;
the remaining arguments can be accessed as the value of
the scsh variable \ex{command-line-arguments}.
\subsection{Scripts and programs}
The scsh command-line switches provide sophisticated support for
the authors of shell scripts and programs;
they also allow the programmer to write programs
that use the {\scm} module system.
There is a difference between a \emph{script}, which performs its action
\emph{as it is loaded}, and a \emph{program}, which is loaded/linked,
and then performs its action by having control transferred to an entry point
(\eg, the \ex{main()} function in C programs) that was defined by the
load/link operation.
A \emph{script}, by the above definition, cannot be compiled by the simple
mechanism of loading it into a scsh process and dumping out a heap image---it
executes as it loads. It does not have a top-level \ex{main()}-type entry
point.
It is more flexible and useful to implement a system
as a program than as a script.
Programs can be compiled straightforwardly;
they can also export procedural interfaces for use by other Scheme packages.
However, scsh supports both the script and the program style of programming.
\subsection{Inserting interpreter triggers into scsh programs}
When Unix tries to execute an executable file whose first 16 bits are
the character pair ``\ex{\#!}'', it treats the file not as machine-code
to be directly executed by the native processor, but as source code to
be executed by some interpreter.
The interpreter to use is specified immediately after the ``\ex{\#!}''
sequence on the first line of the source file
(along with one optional initial argument).
The kernel reads in the name of the interpreter, and executes that instead.
The interpreter is passed the source filename as its first argument, with
the original arguments following.
Consult the Unix man page for the \ex{exec} system call for more information.
Scsh allows Scheme programs to have these triggers placed on
their first line.
Scsh treats the character sequence ``\ex{\#!}'' as a block-comment sequence,%
\footnote{Why a block-comment instead of an end-of-line delimited comment?
See the section on meta-args.}
and skips all following characters until it reads the comment-terminating
sequence newline/exclamation-point/sharp-sign/newline (\ie, the
sequence ``\ex{!\#}'' occurring on its own line).
In this way, the programmer can arrange for an initial
\begin{code}
#!/usr/local/bin/scsh -s
!#\end{code}
header appearing in a Scheme program
to be ignored when the program is loaded into scsh.
\subsection{Module system}
Scsh uses the {\scm} module system, which defines
\emph{packages}, \emph{structures}, and \emph{interfaces}.
%
\begin{description}
\item [Package] A package is an environment---that is, a set of
variable/value bindings.
You can evaluate Scheme forms inside a package, or load a file into a package.
Packages export sets of bindings; these sets are called \emph{structures}.
\item [Structure] A structure is a named view on a package---a set of
bindings. Other packages can \emph{open} the structure, importing its
bindings into their environment. Packages can provide more than one
structure, revealing different portions of the package's environment.
\item [Interface] An interface is the ``type'' of a structure. An
interface is the set of names exported by a structure. These names
can also be marked with other static information (\eg, advisory type
declarations, or syntax information).
\end{description}
More information on the the {\scm} module system can be found in the
file \ex{module.ps} in the \ex{doc} directory of the {\scm} and scsh releases.
Programming Scheme with a module system is different from programming
in older Scheme implementations,
and the associated development problems are consequently different.
In Schemes that lack modular abstraction mechanisms,
everything is accessible; the major problem is preventing name-space conflicts.
In Scheme 48, name-space conflicts vanish; the major problem is that not
all bindings are accessible from every place.
It takes a little extra work to specify what packages export which values.
It may take you a little while to get used to the new style of program
development.
Although scsh can be used without referring to the module system at
all, we recommend taking the time to learn and use it.
The effort will pay off in the construction of modular, factorable programs.
\subsection{Switches}
\label{sec:scsh-switches}
The scsh top-level takes command-line switches in the following format:
%
\codex{scsh [\var{meta-arg}] [\vari{switch}i {\ldots}]
[\var{end-option} \vari{arg}1 {\ldots} \vari{arg}n]}
where
\begin{inset}
\begin{flushleft}
\begin{tabular}{ll@{\qquad}l}
\var{meta-arg:} & \verb|\| \var{script-file-name} \\
\\
\var{switch:} & \ex{-e} \var{entry-point}
& Specify top-level entry-point. \\
& \ex{-o} \var{structure}
& Open structure in current package. \\
& \ex{-m} \var{structure}
& Switch to package. \\
& \ex{-n} \var{new-package}
& Switch to new package. \\ \\
& \ex{-lm} \var{module-file-name}
& Load module into config package. \\
& \ex{-l} \var{file-name}
& Load file into current package. \\
& \ex{-dm} & Do script module. \\
& \ex{-ds} & Do script. \\
\\
\var{end-option:} & \ex{-s} \var{script} \\
& \ex{-c} \var{exp} \\
& \ex{--}
\end{tabular}
\end{flushleft}
\end{inset}
%
These command-line switches
essentially provide a little linker language for linking a shell script or a
program together with {\scm} modules.
The command-line processor serially opens structures and loads code into a
given package.
Switches that side-effect a package operate on a particular ``current''
package; there are switches to change this package.
(These switches provide functionality equivalent to the interactive
\ex{,open} \ex{,load} \ex{,in} and \ex{,new} commands.)
Except where indicated, switches specify actions that are executed in a
left-to-right order.
The initial current package is the user package, which is completely
empty and opens (imports the bindings of) the R4RS and scsh structures.
If the Scheme process is started up in an interactive mode, then the current
package in force at the end of switch scanning is the one inside which
the interactive read-eval-print loop is started.
The command-line switch processor works in two passes:
it first parses the switches, building a list of actions to perform,
then the actions are performed serially.
The switch list is terminated by one of the \var{end-option} switches.
The \vari{arg}{i} arguments occurring after an end-option switch are
passed to the scsh program as the value of \ex{command-line-arguments}
and the tail of the list returned by \ex{(command-line)}.
That is, an \var{end-option} switch separates switches that control
the scsh ``machine'' from the actual arguments being passed to the scsh
program that runs on that machine.
The following switches and end options are defined:
\begin{itemize}
\def\Item#1{\item{\ex{#1}}\\}
\Item{-o \var{struct}}
Open the structure in the current package.
\Item{-n \var{package}}
Make and enter a new package. The package has an associated structure
named \var{package} with an empty export list.
If \var{package} is the string ``\ex{\#f}'',
the new package is anonmyous, with no associated named structure.
The new package initially opens no other structures,
not even the R4RS bindings. You must follow a ``\ex{-n foo}''
switch with ``\ex{-o scheme}'' to access the standard identifiers such
as \ex{car} and \ex{define}.
\Item{-m \var{struct}}
Change the current package to the package underlying
structure \var{struct}.
(The \ex{-m} stands for ``module.'')
\Item{-lm \var{module-file-name}}
Load the specified file into scsh's config package --- the file
must contain source written in the Scheme 48 module language
(``load module''). Does not alter the current package.
\Item{-l \var{file-name}}
Load the specified file into the current package.
\Item{-c \var{exp}}
Evaluate expression \var{exp} in the current package and exit.
This is called \ex{-c} after a common shell convention (see sh and csh).
The expression is evaluated in the the current package (and hence is
affected by \ex{-m}'s and \ex{-n}'s.)
When the scsh top-level constructs the scsh command-line in this case,
it takes \ex{"scsh"} to be the program name.
This switch terminates argument scanning; following args become
the tail of the command-line list.
\Item{-e \var{entry-point}}
Specify an entry point for a program. The \var{entry-point} is
a variable that is taken from the current package in force at the end
of switch evaluation. The entry point does not have to be exported
by the package in a structure; it can be internal to the package.
The top level passes control to the entry point by applying it to
the command-line list (so programs executing in private
packages can reference their command-line arguments without opening
the \ex{scsh} package to access the \ex{(command-line)} procedure).
Note that, like the list returned by the \ex{(command-line)} procedure,
the list passed to the entry point includes the name
of the program being executed (as the first element of the list),
not just the arguments to the program.
A \ex{-e} switch can occur anywhere in the switch list, but it is the
\emph{last} action performed by switch scanning if it occurs.
(We violate ordering here as the shell-script \ex{\#!} mechanism
prevents you from putting the \emph{-e} switch last, where it belongs.)
\Item{-s \var{script}}
Specify a file to load.
A \ex{-ds} (do-script) or \ex{-dm} (do-module) switch occurring earlier in
the switch list gives the place where the script should be loaded. If
there is no \ex{-ds} or \ex{-dm} switch, then the script is loaded at the
end of switch scanning, into the module that is current at the end of
switch scanning.
We use the \ex{-ds} switch to violate left-to-right switch execution order
as the \ex{-s} switch is \emph{required} to be last
(because of the \ex{\#!} machinery),
independent of when/where in the switch-processing order
it should be loaded.
When the scsh top-level constructs the scsh command-line in this case,
it takes \var{script} to be the program name.
This switch terminates switch parsing; following args are ignored
by the switch-scanner and are passed through to the program as
the tail of the command-line list.
\Item{--}
Terminate argument scanning and start up scsh in interactive mode.
If the argument list just runs out, without either a terminating
\ex{-s} or \ex{--} arg, then scsh also starts up in interactive mode,
with an empty \ex{command-line-arguments} list
(for example, simply entering \ex{scsh} at a shell prompt with no
args at all).
When the scsh top-level constructs the scsh command-line in this case,
it takes \ex{"scsh"} to be the program name.
This switch terminates switch parsing; following args are ignored
by the switch-scanner and are passed through to the program as
the tail of the command-line list.
\Item{-ds}
Specify when to load the script (``do-script''). If this switch occurs,
the switch list \emph{must} be terminated by a \ex{-s \var{script}}
switch. The script is loaded into the package that is current at the
\ex{-ds} switch.
\Item{-dm}
As above, but the current module is ignored. The script is loaded into the
\ex{config} package (``do-module''), and hence must be written in the
{\scm} module language.
This switch doesn't affect the current module---after executing this
switch, the current module is the same as as it was before.
This switch is provided to make it easy to write shell scripts in the
{\scm} module language.
\end{itemize}
\subsection{The meta argument}
\label{sec:meta-arg}
The scsh switch parser takes a special command-line switch,
a single backslash called the ``meta-argument,'' which is useful for
shell scripts.
If the initial command-line argument is a ``\verb|\|''
argument, followed by a filename argument \var{fname}, scsh will open the file
\var{fname} and read more arguments from the second line of this file.
This list of arguments will then replace the ``\verb|\|'' argument---\ie,
the new arguments are inserted in front of \var{fname},
and the argument parser resumes argument scanning.
This is used to overcome a limitation of the \ex{\#!} feature:
the \ex{\#!} line can only specify a single argument after the interpreter.
For example, we might hope the following scsh script, \ex{ekko},
would implement a simple-minded version of the Unix \ex{echo} program:
\begin{code}
#!/usr/local/bin/scsh -e main -s
!#
(define (main args)
(map (\l{arg} (display arg) (display " "))
(cdr args))
(newline))\end{code}
%
The idea would be that the command
\codex{ekko Hi there.}
would by expanded by the \ex{exec(2)} kernel call into
%
\begin{code}
/usr/local/bin/scsh -e main -s ekko Hi there.\end{code}
%
In theory, this would cause scsh to start up, load in file \ex{ekko},
call the entry point on the command-line list
\codex{(main '("ekko" "Hi" "there."))}
and exit.
Unfortunately, the {\Unix} \ex{exec(2)} syscall's support for scripts is
not very general or well-designed.
It will not handle multiple arguments;
the \ex{\#!} line is usually required to contain no more than 32 characters;
it is not recursive.
If these restrictions are violated, most Unix systems will not provide accurate
error reporting, but either fail silently, or simply incorrectly implement
the desired functionality.
These are the facts of Unix life.
In the \ex{ekko} example above, our \ex{\#!} trigger line has three
arguments (``\ex{-e}'', ``\ex{main}'', and ``\ex{-s}''), so it will not
work.
The meta-argument is how we work around this problem.
We must instead invoke the scsh interpreter with the single \cd{\\} argument,
and put the rest of the arguments on line two of the program.
Here's the correct program:
%
\begin{code}
#!/usr/local/bin/scsh \\
-e main -s
!#
(define (main args)
(map (\l{arg} (display arg) (display " "))
(cdr args))
(newline))\end{code}
%
Now, the invocation starts as
\codex{ekko Hi there.}
and is expanded by exec(2) into
\begin{code}
/usr/local/bin/scsh \\ ekko Hi there.\end{code}
When scsh starts up, it expands the ``\cd{\\}'' argument into the arguments
read from line two of \ex{ekko}, producing this argument list:
\begin{code}\cddollar
\underline{-e main -s ekko} Hi there.
$\uparrow$
{\rm{}Expanded from} \cd{\\} ekko\end{code}
%
With this argument list, processing proceeds as we intended.
\subsubsection{Secondary argument syntax}
Scsh uses a very simple grammar to encode the extra arguments on
the second line of the scsh script.
The only special characters are space, tab, newline, and backslash.
\begin{itemize}
\item Each space character terminates an argument.
This means that two spaces in a row introduce an empty-string argument.
\item The tab character is not permitted
(unless you quote it with the backslash character described below).
This is to prevent the insidious bug where you believe you have
six space characters, but you really have a tab character,
and \emph{vice-versa}.
\item The newline character terminates the sequence of arguments,
and will also terminate a final non-empty argument.
(However, a newline following a space does not introduce a final
empty-string argument; it only terminates the argument list.)
\item The backslash character is the escape character.
It escapes backslash, space, tab, and newline, turning off their
special functions, and allowing them to be included in arguments.
The {\Ansi} C escape sequences, such as \verb|\n| and \verb|\t| are
also supported; these also produce argument-constituents---\verb|\n|
doesn't act like a terminating newline.
The escape sequence \verb|\|\emph{nnn} for \emph{exactly} three
octal digits reads as the character whose {\Ascii} code is \emph{nnn}.
It is an error if backslash is followed by just one or two octal digits:
\verb|\3Q| is an error.
Octal escapes are always constituent chars.
Backslash followed by other chars is not allowed
(so we can extend the escape-code space later if we like).
\end{itemize}
You have to construct these line-two argument lines carefully.
In particular, beware of trailing spaces at the end of the line---they'll
give you extra trailing empty-string arguments.
Here's an example:
%
\begin{inset}
\begin{verbatim}
#!/bin/interpreter \
foo bar quux\ yow\end{verbatim}
\end{inset}
%
would produce the arguments
%
\codex{("foo" "bar" "" "quux yow")}
\subsection{Examples}
\begin{itemize}
\def\Item#1{\item{\ex{#1}}\\}
\def\progItem#1{\item{Program \ex{#1}}\\}
\Item{scsh -dm -m myprog -e top -s myprog.scm}
Load \ex{myprog.scm} into the \ex{config} package, then shift to the
\ex{myprog} package and call \ex{(top '("myprog.scm"))}, then exit.
This sort of invocation is typically used in \ex{\#!} script lines
(see below).
\Item{scsh -c '(display "Hello, world.")'}
A simple program.
\Item{scsh -o bigscheme}
Start up interactively in the user package after opening
structure \ex{bigscheme}.
\Item{scsh -o bigscheme -- Three args passed}
Start up interactively in the user package after opening \ex{bigscheme}.
The \ex{command-line-args} variable in the scsh package is bound to the
list \ex{("Three" "args" "passed")}, and the \ex{(command-line)}
procedure returns the list \ex{("scsh" "Three" "args" "passed")}.
\progItem{ekko}
This shell script, called \ex{ekko}, implements a version of
the Unix \ex{echo} program:
\begin{code}
#!/usr/local/bin/scsh -s
!#
(for-each (\l{arg} (display arg) (display " "))
command-line-args)\end{code}
Note this short program is an example of a \emph{script}---it
executes as it loads.
The Unix rule for executing \ex{\#!} shell scripts causes
\codex{ekko Hello, world.}
to expand as
\codex{/usr/local/bin/scsh -s ekko Hello, world.}
\progItem{ekko}
This is the same program, \emph{not} as a script.
Writing it this way makes it possible to compile the program
(and then, for instance, dump it out as a heap image).
%
\begin{code}
#!/usr/local/bin/scsh \\
-e top -s
!#
(define (top args)
(for-each (\l{arg} (display arg) (display " "))
(cdr args)))\end{code}
%
The \ex{exec(2)} expansion of the \ex{\#!} line together with
the scsh expansion of the ``\verb|\ ekko|'' meta-argument
(see section~\ref{sec:meta-arg}) gives the following command-line expansion:
\begin{code}
ekko Hello, world.
{\evalto} /usr/local/bin/scsh \\ ekko Hello, world.
{\evalto} /usr/local/bin/scsh -e top -s ekko Hello, world.\end{code}
\progItem{sort}
This is a program to replace the Unix \ex{sort} utility---sorting lines
read from stdin, and printing the results on stdout.
Note that the source code defines a general sorting package,
which is useful (1) as a Scheme module exporting sort procedures
to other Scheme code, and (2) as a standalone program invoked from
the \ex{top} procedure.
\begin{code}
#!/usr/local/bin/scsh \\
-dm -m sort-toplevel -e top -s
!#
;;; This is a sorting module. TOP procedure exports
;;; the functionality as a Unix program akin to sort(1).
(define-structures ((sort-struct (export sort-list
sort-vector!))
(sort-toplevel (export top)))
(open scheme)
(begin (define (sort-list elts <=) {\ldots})
(define (sort-vec! vec <=) {\ldots})
;; Parse the command line and
;; sort stdin to stdout.
(define (top args)
{\ldots})))\end{code}
The expansion below shows how the command-line scanner
(1) loads the config file \ex{sort} (written in the {\scm} module language),
(2) switches to the package underlying the \ex{sort-toplevel} structure,
(3) calls \ex{(top '("sort" "foo" "bar"))} in the package, and finally
(4) exits.
%
{\small
\begin{centercode}
sort foo bar
{\evalto} /usr/local/bin/scsh \\ sort foo bar
{\evalto} /usr/local/bin/scsh -dm -m sort-toplevel -e top -s sort foo bar\end{centercode}}
An alternate method would have used a \ex{-n -o sort-toplevel}
sequence of switches to specify a top-level package.
\end{itemize}
Note that the sort example can be compiled into a Unix program by
loading the file into an scsh process, and dumping a heap with top-level
\ex{top}. Even if we don't want to export the sort's functionality as a
subroutine library, it is still useful to write the sort program with the
module language. The command line design allows us to run this program as
either an interpreted script (given the \ex{\#!} args in the header) or as a
compiled heap image.
\subsection{Process exit values}
Scsh ignores the value produced by its top-level computation when determining
its exit status code.
If the top-level computation completed with no errors,
scsh dies with exit code 0.
For example, a scsh process whose top-level is specified by a \ex{-c \var{exp}}
or a \ex{-e \var{entry}} entry point ignores the value produced
by evaluating \var{exp} and calling \var{entry}, respectively.
If these computations terminate with no errors, the scsh process
exits with an exit code of 0.
To return a specific exit status, use the \ex{exit} procedure explicitly, \eg,
\codex{scsh -c "(exit (run (| (fmt) (mail shivers@lcs.mit.edu))))"}
\section{The scsh virtual machine}
To run the {\scm} implementation of scsh, you run a specially modified
copy of the {\scm} virtual machine with a scsh heap image.
This command starts the vm up with a 1Mword heap (split into two semispaces):
\codex{scshvm -o scshvm -h 1000000 -i scsh.image arg1 arg2 \ldots}
The vm peels off initial vm arguments
up to the \ex{-i} heap image argument, which terminates vm argument parsing.
The rest of the arguments are passed off to the scsh top-level.
Scsh's top-level removes scsh arguments; the rest show up as the value
of \ex{command-line-arguments}.
Alternatively, you can run the scsh top-level binary.
This is nothing but a small cover program that invokes the
scsh vm on the scsh heap image for you.
The scsh binary is actually nothing but a small cover program that invokes the
byte-code interpreter on the scsh heap image for you.
This allows you to simply start up an interactive scsh from a command
line, as well as write shell scripts that begin with the simple trigger
\codex{\#!/usr/local/bin/scsh -s}
\section{VM arguments}
You can also directly execute the virtual machine,
which takes its own set of command-line switches..
For example,
this command starts the vm up with a 1Mword heap (split into two semispaces):
\codex{scshvm -o scshvm -h 1000000 -i scsh.image arg1 arg2 \ldots}
The vm peels off initial vm arguments
up to the \ex{-i} heap image argument, which terminates vm argument parsing.
The rest of the arguments are passed off to the scsh top-level.
Scsh's top-level removes scsh switches, as discussed in the previous section;
the rest show up as the value of \ex{command-line-arguments}.
Directly executing the vm can be useful to specify non-standard switches, or
invoke the virtual machine on special heap images, which can contain
pre-compiled scsh programs with their own top-level procedures.
\subsection{VM arguments}
\label{sec:vm-args}
Scsh uses a special version of the {\scm} virtual machine.
It takes arguments in the following form:
The vm takes arguments in the following form:
\codex{scshvm [\var{meta-arg}] [\var{vm-options}\+] [\var{end-option} \var{scheme-args}]}
where
\begin{inset}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\var{meta-arg:} & \verb|\ |\var{script} \\
\var{meta-arg:} & \verb|\ |\var{filename} \\
\\
\var{vm-option}: & \ex{-h }\var{heap-size-in-words} \\
& \ex{-s }\var{stack-size-in-words} \\
@ -52,156 +626,128 @@ where
\end{tabular}
\end{inset}
\subsection{The meta argument}
The {\scm} vm takes a special command-line switch, a single backslash called
the ``meta-switch,'' which is useful for shell scripts.
While parsing the command-line arguments, if the vm sees a ``\verb|\|''
argument, followed by a filename argument \var{fname}, it will open the file
\var{fname}, and read more arguments from the second line of this file.
This list of arguments will then replace the ``\verb|\|'' argument---\ie,
the new arguments are inserted in front of \var{fname},
and the argument parser resumes argument scanning.
This is used to overcome a limitation of the \ex{\#!} feature:
the \ex{\#!} line can only specify a single argument after the interpreter.
For example, we might hope the following scsh script, \ex{ekko},
would implement a simple-minded version of \ex{echo(1)}:
\begin{code}
#!/bin/scshvm -o /bin/scshvm -i /lib/scsh.image -s
!#
(map (\l{arg} (display arg) (display " "))
command-line-arguments)
(newline)\end{code}
%
The idea would be that the command
\codex{ekko Hi there.}
would by expanded by \ex{exec(2)} into
%
\begin{code}
/bin/scshvm -o /bin/scshvm -i /lib/scsh.image -s ekko Hi there.\end{code}
%
In theory, this would cause scsh to start up, set \ex{command-line-arguments}
to \ex{("Hi" "there.")}, load the source file \ex{ekko}, and exit.
The vm's meta-switch ``\verb|\ |\var{filename}'' is handled the same
as scsh's meta-switch, and serves the same purpose.
However, the {\Unix} \ex{exec(2)} call will not handle multiple arguments
on the \ex{\#!} line, so this script won't work. We must instead invoke
the {\scm} vm with the single \cd{\\} argument, and put the rest of the
arguments on line two of the script. Here's the correct script:\footnote{
In fact, I'm playing fast and loose with the actual pathnames
used in this example: \ex{scshvm} is probably not going to be found in
\ex{/bin}. I've abbreviated things so the long argument lists will fit
into one line of text.
See the following sections for the full details.}
%
\begin{code}
#!/bin/scshvm \\
-o /bin/scshvm -i /lib/scsh.image -s
!#
(map (\l{arg} (display arg) (display " "))
command-line-arguments)
(newline)\end{code}
%
Now, the invocation starts as
\codex{ekko Hi there.}
and is expanded by exec(2) into
\begin{code}
/bin/scshvm \\ ekko Hi there.\end{code}
When scshvm starts up, it expands the ``\cd{\\}'' argument into the arguments
read from line two of \ex{ekko}, producing this argument list:
\begin{code}\cddollar
\underline{-o /bin/scshvm -i /lib/scsh.image -s ekko} Hi there.
$\uparrow$
{\rm{}Expanded from} \cd{\\} ekko\end{code}
%
With this argument list, processing proceeds as we intended.
\subsection{VM options}
\subsubsection{VM options}
The \ex{-o \var{object-file-name}} switch tells the vm where to find
relocation information for its foreign-function calls.
Scsh will use a pre-compiled default if it is not specified.
Scsh must have this information to run,
Scsh \emph{must} have this information to run,
since scsh's syscall interfaces are done with foreign-function calls.
The \ex{-h} and \ex{-s} options tell the vm how much space to allocate
for the heap and stack.
The heap size value is the total number of words allocated for the heap;
this space is then split into two semi-spaces for {\scm}'s stop-and-copy
collector.
\subsection{End options}
\subsubsection{End options}
End options terminate argument parsing.
The \ex{-i} switch is followed by the name of a heap image for the
vm to execute, and terminates vm argument parsing;
following arguments are passed off to the heap image's top-level program.
vm to execute.
The \var{image-file-name} string is also taken to be the name of the program
being executed by the VM; this name becomes the head of the argument
list passed to the heap image's top-level entry point.
The tail of the argument list is constructed from all following arguments.
The \ex{--} switch terminates argument parsing without giving
a specific heap image; the vm will start up with using a default
a specific heap image; the vm will start up using a default
heap (whose location is compiled into the vm).
All the following arguments comprise the tail of the list passed off to
the heap image's top-level procedure.
Notice that you are not allowed to pass arguments to the heap image's
top-level program (\eg, scsh) without delimiting them with \ex{-i}
top-level procedure (\eg, scsh) without delimiting them with \ex{-i}
or \ex{--} flags.
\section{Scsh arguments}
\label{sec:scsh-args}
\subsection{Inserting interpreter triggers into heap images}
{\scm}'s heap image format allows for an informational header:
when the vm loads in a heap image, it ignores all data occurring before
the first control-L character (\textsc{Ascii} 12).
This means that you can insert a ``\ex{\#!}'' trigger line into a
heap image, making it a form of executable ``shell script.''
Since the vm requires multiple arguments to be given on the command
line, you must use the meta-switch.
Here's an example heap-image header:
\begin{code}
#!/usr/local/lib/scsh/scshvm \\
-o /usr/local/lib/scsh/scshvm -i
{\ldots} \textnormal{\emph{Your heap image goes here}} \ldots\end{code}
Scsh's top-level argument parser takes arguments in a simple
format:
\codex{scsh [\var{end-option} \vari{arg}1 {\ldots} \vari{arg}n]}
where
\begin{inset}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\var{end-option:} & \ex{-s} \var{script} \\
& \ex{--}
\end{tabular}
\end{inset}
The \ex{-s} argument causes scsh to load a script file and exit.
It also terminates argument parsing; following arguments are passed
to the scsh program as the value of \ex{command-line-arguments}.
\subsection{Inserting a double-level trigger into Scheme programs}
If you're a nerd, you may enjoy doing a double-level machine shift
in the trigger line of your Scheme programs with the following magic:
\begin{code}\small
#!/usr/local/lib/scsh/scshvm \\
-o /usr/local/lib/scsh/scshvm -i /usr/local/lib/scsh/scsh.image -s
!#
{\ldots} \textnormal{\emph{Your Scheme program goes here}} \ldots\end{code}
If the \ex{-s} argument is not given, scsh runs in interactive mode,
with a standard {\scm} prompt-read-eval-print loop.
The \ex{--} switch terminates argument parsing without specifying a
script to load; it allows the user to pass arguments to an interactive scsh.
Shell scripts can be written and invoked with a \ex{\#!} initial line.
Scsh defines the sequence \ex{\#!} to be a read-macro similar
to the comment character \ex{;}.
The read-macro causes scsh to skip characters until it reads a newline,
\ex{!}, \ex{\#}, newline sequence.
So an initial \ex{\#!} line is ignored by scsh.
% Since there is no standalone scsh binary, scsh scripts must do a double
% level-shift, invoking the vm on the scsh heap image on the scsh script.
% The appropriate magic top three lines are:
% \begin{code}
% #!/usr/local/bin/scshvm \\
% -o /usr/local/bin/scshvm -i /usr/local/lib/scsh/scsh.image -s
% !#
% {\ldots} \textnormal{\emph{Your Scheme code goes here}} \ldots\end{code}
\section{Compiling shell scripts}
The {\Scheme} implementation of scsh allows you to create a heap image
with your own top-level procedure.
\section{Compiling scsh programs}
Scsh allows you to create a heap image with your own top-level procedure.
Adding the pair of lines
\begin{code}
#!/usr/local/bin/scshvm \\\\
-o /usr/local/bin/scshvm -i
\end{code}
#!/usr/local/lib/scsh/scshvm \\
-o /usr/local/lib/scsh/scshvm -i\end{code}
to the top of the heap image will turn it into an executable {\Unix} file.
You can create heap images with the following two procedures.
\defun{dump-scsh-program}{main fname}{\undefined}
\begin{desc}
This procedure writes out a scsh heap image. When the
heap image is executed by the {\Scheme} vm, it will call
the \var{main} procedure on no arguments and then exit.
The {\Scheme} vm will parse command-line arguments as
described in section~\ref{sec:vm-args}, and bind remaining
arguments to the \ex{command-line-arguments} variable before
calling \ex{main}. Further argument parsing (as described for
scsh in section~\ref{sec:scsh-args} is not performed.
heap image is executed by the {\scm} vm, it will call
the \var{main} procedure, passing it the vm's argument list.
When \ex{main} returns an integer value $i$, the vm exits with
exit status $i$.
The {\Scheme} vm will parse command-line switches as
described in section~\ref{sec:vm-args}; remaining arguments
form the tail of the command-line list that is passed to \ex{main}.
(The head of the list is the name of the program being executed
by the vm.)
Further argument parsing
(as described for scsh in section~\ref{sec:scsh-switches})
is not performed.
The heap image created by \ex{dump-scsh-program} has unused
code and data pruned out, so small programs compile to much smaller
heap images.
\end{desc}
\defun{dump-scsh}{fname}{\undefined}
\begin{desc}
This procedure writes out a heap image with the standard
scsh top-level.
When the image is resumed by the vm, it will parse and
execute scsh command-line switches as described in section
\ref{sec:scsh-switches}.
You can use this procedure to write out custom scsh heap images
that have specific packages preloaded and start up in specific
packages.
\end{desc}
Unfortunately, {\scm} does not support separate compilation of
Scheme files or Scheme modules.
The only way to compile is to load source and then dump out a
heap image.
One occasionally hears rumours that this is being addressed
by the {\scm} development team.
\section{Statically linking heap images}
Brian Carlstrom has written code to process {\scm} heap images
into \ex{.o} files that can be linked with a virtual machine
binary to produce a standalone machine-code executable.
The source code comes with the current distribution, but it has not been
integrated into the system or documented in time for this
release.
%Either he integrates it into the system and documents it for release
%0.4, or his body will soon be occupying a shallow grave behind Tech Square.
\section{Standard file locations}
Because the scshvm binary is intended to be used for writing shell
scripts, it is important that the binary be installed in a standard
@ -219,6 +765,7 @@ with a symbolic link to it from
The {\scm} image format allows heap images to have \ex{\#!} triggers,
so \ex{scsh.image} should have a \ex{\#!} trigger of the following form:
\begin{code}
#!/usr/local/bin/scshvm \\
-o /usr/local/bin/scshvm -i
#!/usr/local/lib/scsh/scshvm \\
-o /usr/local/lib/scsh/scshvm -i
{\ldots} \textnormal{\emph{heap image goes here}} \ldots\end{code}

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% -*- latex -*-
\chapter{Strings and characters}
Scsh provides a set of procedures for processing strings and characters.
The procedures provided match regular expressions, search strings,
parse file-names, and manipulate sets of characters.
Also see chapter \ref{chapt:fr-awk} on record I/O, field parsing,
and the awk loop.
Also see chapters \ref{chapt:rdelim} and \ref{chapt:fr-awk}
on record I/O, field parsing, and the awk loop.
The procedures documented there allow you to read character-delimited
records from ports, use regular expressions to split the records into fields
(for example, splitting a string at every occurrence of colon or white-space),
@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ The code uses Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
\end{defundesc}
\begin{defundesc} {match:start} {match [match-number]} \fixnum
Returns the start position of the match denoted by \var{match-number}
Returns the start position of the match denoted by \var{match-number}.
The whole regexp is 0. Each further number represents positions
enclosed by \ex{(\ldots)} sections. \var{Match-number} defaults to 0.
\end{defundesc}
@ -50,10 +51,9 @@ The code uses Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
\var{Match-number} defaults to 0 (the whole match).
\end{defundesc}
\remark{
What do these guys do when there is no match corresponding to
\var{match-number}?
Return {\sharpf} or signal error? {\sharpf} probably best.}
\oops{Scsh regex matching doesn't currently flag un-matched subexpressions
in the \ex{match:begin}, \ex{match:end}, and \ex{match:substring} functions.
This needs to be fixed.}
Regular expression matching compiles patterns into special data
structures which can be efficiently used to match against strings.
@ -95,13 +95,9 @@ In other words, it quotes the regular expression, prepending backslashes
to all the special regexp characters in \var{str}.
\begin{code}
(regexp-quote "*Hello* world.")
{\evalto}"\\*Hello\\* world\\."\end{code}
{\evalto}"\\\\*Hello\\\\* world\\\\."\end{code}
\end{desc}
\oops{Scsh regex matching doesn't currently flag un-matched subexpressions
in the \ex{match:begin}, \ex{match:end}, and \ex{match:substring} functions.
This needs to be fixed.}
\subsection{Other string manipulation facilities}
\defun {index} {string char [start]} {{\fixnum} or false}
@ -191,8 +187,8 @@ slashes to a single slash.
A file-name in \emph{directory form} is either a file-name terminated by
a slash, \eg, ``\ex{/src/des/}'', or the empty string, ``''.
The empty string corresponds to the current working directory, who's
file-name is dot (``\ex{.}'').
The empty string corresponds to the current working directory,
whose file-name is dot (``\ex{.}'').
Working backwards from the append-a-slash rule,
we extend the syntax of {\Posix} file-names to define the empty string
to be a file-name form of the root directory ``\ex{/}''.
@ -223,6 +219,27 @@ interpreted in file-name form, \ie, as root.
\subsubsection{Procedures}
\defun {file-name-directory?} {fname} \boolean
\defunx {file-name-non-directory?} {fname} \boolean
\begin{desc}
These predicates return true if the string is in directory form, or
file-name form (see the above discussion of these two forms).
Note that they both return true on the ambiguous case of empty string,
which is both a directory (current working directory), and a file name
(the file-system root).
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lll}
File name & \ex{\ldots-directory?} & \ex{\ldots-non-directory?} \\
\hline
\ex{"src/des"} & \ex{\sharpf} & \ex{\sharpt} \\
\ex{"src/des/"} & \ex{\sharpt} & \ex{\sharpf} \\
\ex{"/"} & \ex{\sharpt} & \ex{\sharpf} \\
\ex{"."} & \ex{\sharpf} & \ex{\sharpt} \\
\ex{""} & \ex{\sharpt} & \ex{\sharpt}
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{desc}
\begin{defundesc} {file-name-as-directory} {fname} \str
Convert a file-name to directory form.
Basically, add a trailing slash if needed:
@ -465,14 +482,14 @@ is also frequently useful for expanding file-names.
\label{sec:char-sets}
Scsh provides a \ex{char-set} type for expressing sets of characters.
These sets are used by some of the delimited input procedures
These sets are used by some of the delimited-input procedures
(section~\ref{sec:field-reader}).
The character set package that scsh uses was taken from Project Mac's
MIT Scheme.
\defun{char-set?}{x}\boolean
\begin{desc}
Returns true if the object \ex{x} is a character set.
Returns true if the object \var{x} is a character set.
\end{desc}
\subsection{Creating character sets}
@ -501,7 +518,7 @@ Returns a character set containing every character \var{c} such that
\defun{ascii-range->char-set}{lower upper}{char-set}
\begin{desc}
Returns a character set containing every character whose {\Ascii}
code lies in the range $[\var{lower},\var{upper}]$ inclusive.
code lies in the half-open range $[\var{lower},\var{upper})$.
\end{desc}
\subsection{Querying character sets}
@ -510,9 +527,19 @@ code lies in the range $[\var{lower},\var{upper}]$ inclusive.
This procedure returns a list of the members of \var{char-set}.
\end{desc}
\defunx{char-set-member?}{char char-set}\boolean
\defunx{char-set-contains?}{char-set char}\boolean
\begin{desc}
This procedure tests \var{char} for membership in set \var{char-set}.
\remark{Previous releases of scsh called this procedure \ex{char-set-member?},
reversing the order of the arguments.
This made sense, but was unfortunately the reverse order in which the
arguments appear in MIT Scheme.
A reasonable argument order was not backwards-compatible with MIT Scheme;
on the other hand, the MIT Scheme argument order was counter-intuitive
and at odds with common mathematical notation and the \ex{member} family
of R4RS procedures.
We sought to escape the dilemma by shifting to a new name.}
\end{desc}
\subsection{Character set algebra}

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%&latex -*- latex -*-
\documentclass[twoside]{report}
\usepackage{code,boxedminipage,draftfooters,palatino,ct,makeidx,
headings,mantitle,array,matter,mysize10}
\parskip = 3pt plus 3pt
\sloppy
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%&latex -*- latex -*-
>%&latex -*- latex -*-
\chapter{Todo}
{\parindent 0pt
The {\LaTeX} hackery needs yet another serious pass. Most importantly,
long procedure ``declarations'' need to be broken across two lines.
We'd love to have have people implement these subsystems and
fold them into the scsh release:
\begin{itemize}
\item More network protocols. Telnet and ftp would be the most important.
\item An ILU interface.
\item An RPC system, with ``tail-recursion.''
\item Interfaces to relational db's. This would be quite useful for
Web servers.
\end{itemize}
Fix up 0-or-more and 1-or-more parameter typesetting, with subscripts.
Manual hacking:
\begin{itemize}
\item The {\LaTeX} hackery needs yet another serious pass. Most importantly,
long procedure ``declarations'' need to be broken across two lines.
Parameter subscripts need to be made real subscripts.
\item Fix up 0-or-more and 1-or-more parameter typesetting, with subscripts.
\item Parameter subscripts need to be made real subscripts.
\item Soup up the markup processor, and redo manual in markup. Generate
LaTeX, HTML, and info versions. Alternatively, persuade some kind
soul to hand-port manual to HTML or info.
\end{itemize}
Job control, after \ex{jcontrol.scm}
@ -21,11 +38,7 @@ Interrupt system.
Make it all coexist with S48 threads as well as can be done for Unix.
The DEC SRC tech report gives a good discussion of the issues.
Support for file locking: \ex{(lock-file fd op)}, \ex{with-file-locked}, \ldots
Testing broken symlinks -- new value for \var{chase?} flag?
Interactive flag machinery
Testing broken symlinks---new value for \var{chase?} flag?
Rename and release \ex{ensure-file-name-is-\{non,\}directory}.
@ -35,18 +48,7 @@ Other things should be available: hash tables, sort, list utils, pattern
matchers. But things start to overload. The module system is the appropriate
way to use these.
Support for writing scripts that use the module language.
Need calls to control port i/o buffering.
Need to do file-control (\ie, \ex{fcntl()}).
\ex{fcntl} is ugly.
Better to have a procedure for each different operation.
Tty stuff and control tty.
More documentation for the \ex{wait()} machinery.
We need a general time/date parser, that can convert strings like
``Thursday after Christmas'' into date records.
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%&latex -*- latex -*-
% Fix OXTABS footnote bug
% Figures should be dumped out earlier? Pack two to a page?
\section{Terminal device control}
\label{sect:tty}
\newcommand{\fr}[1]{\makebox[0pt][r]{#1}}
% \ex{#1} and also generates an index entry.
\newcommand{\exi}[1]{\index{#1@\texttt{#1}}\ex{#1}}
\newcommand{\indextt}[1]{\index{#1@\texttt{#1}}}
Scsh provides a complete set of routines for manipulating terminal
devices---putting them in ``raw'' mode, changing and querying their
special characters, modifying their i/o speeds, and so forth.
The scsh interface is designed both for generality and portability
across different Unix platforms, so you don't have to rewrite your
program each time you move to a new system.
We've also made an effort to use reasonable, Scheme-like names for
the multitudinous named constants involved, so when you are reading
code, you'll have less likelihood of getting lost in a bewildering
maze of obfuscatory constants named \ex{ICRNL}, \ex{INPCK}, \ex{IUCLC},
and \ex{ONOCR}.
This section can only lay out the basic functionality of the terminal
device interface.
For further details, see the termios(3) man page on your system,
or consult one of the standard {\Unix} texts.
\subsection{Portability across OS variants}
Terminal-control software is inescapably complex, ugly, and low-level.
Unix variants each provide their own way of controlling terminal
devices, making it difficult to provide interfaces that are
portable across different Unix systems.
Scsh's terminal support is based primarily upon the {\Posix} termios
interface.
Programs that can be written using only the {\Posix} interface are likely
to be widely portable.
The bulk of the documentation that follows consists of several pages worth
of tables defining different named constants that enable and disable different
features of the terminal driver.
Some of these flags are {\Posix}; others are taken from the two common
branches of Unix development, SVR4 and 4.3+ Berkeley.
Scsh guarantees that the non-{\Posix} constants will be bound identifiers.
\begin{itemize}
\item If your OS supports a particular non-{\Posix} flag,
its named constant will be bound to the flag's value.
\item If your OS doesn't support the flag, its named constant
will be present, but bound to \sharpf.
\end{itemize}
This means that if you want to use SVR4 or Berkeley features in a program,
your program can portably test the values of the flags before using
them---the flags can reliably be referenced without producing OS-dependent
``unbound variable'' errors.
Finally, note that although {\Posix}, SVR4, and Berkeley cover the lion's
share of the terminal-driver functionality,
each operating system inevitably has non-standard extensions.
While a particular scsh implementation may provide these extensions,
they are not portable, and so are not documented here.
\subsection{The tty-info record type}
The primary data-structure that describes a terminal's mode is
a \ex{tty-info} record, defined as follows:
\index{tty-info record type}
\indextt{tty-info:control-chars}
\indextt{tty-info:input-flags}
\indextt{tty-info:output-flags}
\indextt{tty-info:control-flags}
\indextt{tty-info:local-flags}
\indextt{tty-info:input-speed}
\indextt{tty-info:output-speed}
\indextt{tty-info:min}
\indextt{tty-info:time}
\indextt{tty-info?}
\begin{code}
(define-record tty-info
control-chars ; String: Magic input chars
input-flags ; Int: Input processing
output-flags ; Int: Output processing
control-flags ; Int: Serial-line control
local-flags ; Int: Line-editting UI
input-speed ; Int: Code for input speed
output-speed ; Int: Code for output speed
min ; Int: Raw-mode input policy
time) ; Int: Raw-mode input policy\end{code}
\subsubsection{The control-characters string}
The \ex{control-chars} field is a character string;
its characters may be indexed by integer values taken from
table~\ref{table:ttychars}.
As discussed above,
only the {\Posix} entries in table~\ref{table:ttychars} are guaranteed
to be legal, integer indices.
A program can reliably test the OS to see if the non-{\Posix}
characters are supported by checking the index constants.
If the control-character function is supported by the terminal driver,
then the corresponding index will be bound to an integer;
if it is not supported, the index will be bound to \sharpf.
To disable a given control-character function, set its corresponding
entry in the \ex{tty-info:control-chars} string to the
special character \exi{disable-tty-char}
(and then use the \ex{(set-tty-info \var{fd/port} \var{info})} procedure
to update the terminal's state).
\subsubsection{The flag fields}
The \ex{tty-info} record's \ex{input-flags}, \ex{output-flags},
\ex{control-flags}, and \ex{local-flags} fields are all bit sets
represented as two's-complement integers.
Their values are composed by or'ing together values taken from
the named constants listed in tables~\ref{table:ttyin}
through \ref{table:ttylocal}.
As discussed above,
only the {\Posix} entries listed in these tables are guaranteed
to be legal, integer flag values.
A program can reliably test the OS to see if the non-{\Posix}
flags are supported by checking the named constants.
If the feature is supported by the terminal driver,
then the corresponding flag will be bound to an integer;
if it is not supported, the flag will be bound to \sharpf.
%%%%% I managed to squeeze this into the DEFINE-RECORD's comments.
% Here is a small table classifying the four flag fields by
% the kind of features they determine:
% \begin{center}
% \begin{tabular}{|ll|}\hline
% Field & Affects \\ \hline \hline
% \ex{input-flags} & Processing of input chars \\
% \ex{output-flags} & Processing of output chars \\
% \ex{control-flags} & Controlling of terminal's serial line \\
% \ex{local-flags} & Details of the line-editting user interface \\
% \hline
% \end{tabular}
% \end{center}
%%%
%%% The figures used to go here.
%%%
\subsubsection{The speed fields}
The \ex{input-speed} and \ex{output-speed} fields determine the
I/O rate of the terminal's line.
The value of these fields is an integer giving the speed
in bits-per-second.
The following speeds are supported by {\Posix}:
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rrrr}
0 & 134 & 600 & 4800 \\
50 & 150 & 1200 & 9600 \\
75 & 200 & 1800 & 19200 \\
110 & 300 & 2400 & 38400 \\
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
Your OS may accept others; it may also allow the special symbols
\ex{'exta} and \ex{'extb}.
\subsubsection{The min and time fields}
The integer \ex{min} and \ex{time} fields determine input blocking
behaviour during non-canonical (raw) input; otherwise, they are ignored.
See the termios(3) man page for further details.
Be warned that {\Posix} allows the base system call's representation
of the \ex{tty-info} record to share storage for the \ex{min} field
and the \ex{ttychar/eof} element of the control-characters string,
and for the \ex{time} field and the \ex{ttychar/eol} element
of the control-characters string.
Many implementations in fact do this.
To stay out of trouble, set the \ex{min} and \ex{time} fields only
if you are putting the terminal into raw mode;
set the eof and eol control-characters only if you are putting
the terminal into canonical mode.
It's ugly, but it's {\Unix}.
\subsection{Using tty-info records}
\defun{make-tty-info}{if of cf lf ispeed ospeed min time}
{tty-info-record}
\defunx{copy-tty-info}{tty-info-record}{tty-info-record}
\begin{desc}
These procedures make it possible to create new \ex{tty-info} records.
The typical method for creating a new record is to copy one retrieved
by a call to the \ex{tty-info} procedure, then modify the copy as desired.
Note that the \ex{make-tty-info} procedure does not take a parameter
to define the new record's control characters.\footnote{
Why? Because the length of the string varies from Unix to Unix.
For example, the word-erase control character (typically control-w)
is provided by most Unixes, but not part of the {\Posix} spec.}
Instead, it simply returns a \ex{tty-info} record whose control-character
string has all elements initialised to {\Ascii} nul.
You may then install the special characters by assigning to the string.
Similarly, the control-character string in the record produced by
\ex{copy-tty-info} does not share structure with the string in the record
being copied, so you may mutate it freely.
\end{desc}
\defun{tty-info}{fd/port}{tty-info-record}
\begin{desc}
The \var{fd/port} parameter is an integer file descriptor or Scheme I/O port
opened on a terminal device.
This procedure returns a \ex{tty-info} record describing the terminal's
current mode.
\end{desc}
\defun {set-tty-info/now} {fd/port info}{no-value}
\defunx{set-tty-info/drain}{fd/port info}{no-value}
\defunx{set-tty-info/flush}{fd/port info}{no-value}
\begin{desc}
The \var{fd/port} parameter is an integer file descriptor or Scheme I/O port
opened on a terminal device.
The procedure chosen determines when and how the terminal's mode is altered:
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|ll|} \hline
Procedure & Meaning \\ \hline \hline
\ex{set-tty-info/now} & Make change immediately. \\
\ex{set-tty-info/drain} & Drain output, then change. \\
\ex{set-tty-info/flush} & Drain output, flush input, then change. \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{desc}
\subsection{Other terminal-device procedures}
\defun{send-tty-break}{fd/port [duration]}{no-value}
\begin{desc}
Send a break signal on the terminal associated with file descriptor
or Scheme I/O port \var{fd/port}.
A break signal is a sequence of continuous zeros on the terminal's transmission
line.
The \var{duration} argument determines the length of the break signal.
A zero value (the default) causes a break of between
0.25 and 0.5 seconds to be sent;
other values determine a period in a manner that will depend upon local
community standards.
\end{desc}
\defun{drain-tty}{fd/port}{no-value}
\begin{desc}
This procedure waits until all the output written to the
terminal device has been transmitted to the device.
If \var{fd/port} is an output port with buffered I/O
enabled, then the port's buffered characters are flushed before
waiting for the device to drain.
\end{desc}
\defun {flush-tty/input} {fd/port}{no-value}
\defunx{flush-tty/output}{fd/port}{no-value}
\defunx{flush-tty/both} {fd/port}{no-value}
\begin{desc}
These procedures discard the unread input chars or unwritten
output chars in the tty's kernel buffers.
\end{desc}
\defun {start-tty-output}{fd/port} {no-value}
\defunx{stop-tty-output} {fd/port} {no-value}
\defunx{start-tty-input} {fd/port} {no-value}
\defunx{stop-tty-input} {fd/port} {no-value}
\begin{desc}
These procedures can be used to control a terminal's input and output flow.
The \ex{stop-tty-output} and \ex{start-tty-output} procedures suspend
and resume output from a terminal device.
The \ex{stop-tty-input} and \ex{start-tty-input} procedures transmit
the special STOP and START characters to the terminal with the intention
of stopping and starting terminal input flow.
\end{desc}
% \defun {encode-baud-rate}{speed}{code}
% \defunx{decode-baud-rate}{code}{speed}
% \begin{desc}
% These procedures can be used to map between the special codes
% that are legal values for the \ex{tty-info:input-speed} and
% \ex{tty-info:output-speed} fields, and actual integer bits-per-second speeds.
% The codes are the values bound to the
% \ex{baud/4800}, \ex{baud/9600}, and other named constants defined above.
% For example:
% \begin{code}
% (decode-baud-rate baud/9600) {\evalto} 9600
%
% ;;; These two expressions are identical:
% (set-tty-info:input-speed ti baud/14400)
% (set-tty-info:input-speed ti (encode-baud-rate 14400))\end{code}
% \end{desc}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\subsection{Control terminals, sessions, and terminal process groups}
\defun{open-control-tty}{tty-name [flags]}{port}
\begin{desc}
This procedure opens terminal device \var{tty-name} as the process'
control terminal
(see the \ex{termios} man page for more information on control terminals).
The \var{tty-name} argument is a file-name such as \ex{/dev/ttya}.
The \var{flags} argument is a value suitable as the second argument
to the \ex{open-file} call; it defaults to \ex{open/read+write}, causing
the terminal to be opened for both input and output.
The port returned is an input port if the \var{flags} permit it,
otherwise an output port.
\R4RS/\scm/scsh do not have input/output ports,
so it's one or the other.
However, you can get both read and write ports open on a terminal
by opening it read/write, taking the result input port,
and duping it to an output port with \ex{dup->outport}.
This procedure guarantees to make the opened terminal the
process' control terminal only if the process does not have
an assigned control terminal at the time of the call.
If the scsh process already has a control terminal, the results are undefined.
To arrange for the process to have no control terminal prior to calling
this procedure, use the \ex{become-session-leader} procedure.
\oops{The control terminal code was added just before release time
for scsh release 0.4. Control terminals are one of the less-standardised
elements of Unix. We can't guarantee that the terminal is definitely
attached as a control terminal; we were only able to test this out
on HP-UX. If you intend to use this feature on your OS, you should
test it out first. If your OS requires the use of the \ex{TIOCSCTTY}
\ex{ioctl}, uncomment the appropriate few lines of code in the
file \ex{tty1.c} and send us email.}
\end{desc}
\defun{become-session-leader}{}{\integer}
\begin{desc}
This is the C \ex{setsid()} call.
{\Posix} job-control has a three-level hierarchy:
session/process-group/process.
Every session has an associated control terminal.
This procedure places the current process into a brand new session,
and disassociates the process from any previous control terminal.
You may subsequently use \ex{open-control-tty} to open a new control
terminal.
It is an error to call this procedure if the current process is already
a process-group leader.
One way to guarantee this is not the case is only to call this procedure
after forking.
\end{desc}
\defun {tty-process-group}{fd/port}{\integer}
\defunx{set-tty-process-group}{fd/port pgrp}{\undefined}
\begin{desc}
This pair of procedures gets and sets the process group of a given
terminal.
\end{desc}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\subsection{Pseudo-terminals}
Scsh implements an interface to Berkeley-style pseudo-terminals.
\defun{fork-pty-session}{thunk}{[process pty-in pty-out tty-name]}
\begin{desc}
This procedure gives a convenient high-level interface to pseudo-terminals.
It first allocates a pty/tty pair of devices, and then forks a child
to execute procedure \var{thunk}.
In the child process
\begin{itemize}
\item Stdio and the current I/O ports are bound to the terminal device.
\item The child is placed in its own, new session
(see \ex{become\=session\=leader}).
\item The terminal device becomes the new session's controlling terminal
(see \ex{open-control-tty}).
\item The \ex{(error-output-port)} is unbuffered.
\end{itemize}
The \ex{fork-pty-session} procedure returns four values:
the child's process object, two ports open on the controlling pty device,
and the name of the child's corresponding terminal device.
\end{desc}
\defun{open-pty}{}{pty-inport tty-name}
\begin{desc}
This procedure finds a free pty/tty pair, and opens the pty device
with read/write access.
It returns a port on the pty,
and the name of the corresponding terminal device.
The port returned is an input port---Scheme doesn't allow input/output
ports.
However, you can easily use \ex{(dup->outport \var{pty-inport})}
to produce a matching output port.
You may wish to turn off I/O buffering for this output port.
\end{desc}
\defun {pty-name->tty-name}{pty-name}{tty-name}
\defunx{tty-name->pty-name}{tty-name}{pty-name}
\begin{desc}
These two procedures map between corresponding terminal and pty controller
names.
For example,
\begin{code}
(pty-name->tty-name "/dev/ptyq3") {\evalto} "/dev/ttyq3"
(tty-name->pty-name "/dev/ttyrc") {\evalto} "/dev/ptyrc"\end{code}
\remark{This is rather Berkeley-specific. SVR4 ptys are rare enough that
I've no real idea if it generalises across the Unix gap. Experts
are invited to advise. Users feel free to not worry---the predominance
of current popular Unix systems use Berkeley ptys.}
\end{desc}
\defunx{make-pty-generator}{}{\proc}
\begin{desc}
This procedure returns a generator of candidate pty names.
Each time the returned procedure is called, it produces a
new candidate.
Software that wishes to search through the set of available ptys
can use a pty generator to iterate over them.
After producing all the possible ptys, a generator returns {\sharpf}
every time it is called.
Example:
\begin{code}
(define pg (make-pty-generator))
(pg) {\evalto} "/dev/ptyp0"
(pg) {\evalto} "/dev/ptyp1"
\vdots
(pg) {\evalto} "/dev/ptyqe"
(pg) {\evalto} "/dev/ptyqf" \textit{(Last one)}
(pg) {\evalto} {\sharpf}
(pg) {\evalto} {\sharpf}
\vdots\end{code}
\end{desc}
% Flag tables
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Control-chars indices
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{table}[p]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|lll|} \hline
Scsh & C & Typical char \\
\hline\hline
{\Posix} & & \\
\exi{ttychar/delete-char} & \ex{ERASE} & del \\
\exi{ttychar/delete-line} & \ex{KILL} & \verb|^U| \\
\exi{ttychar/eof} & \ex{EOF} & \verb|^D| \\
\exi{ttychar/eol} & \ex{EOL} & \\
\exi{ttychar/interrupt} & \ex{INTR} & \verb|^C| \\
\exi{ttychar/quit} & \ex{QUIT} & \verb|^\| \\
\exi{ttychar/suspend} & \ex{SUSP} & \verb|^Z| \\
\exi{ttychar/start} & \ex{START} & \verb|^Q| \\
\exi{ttychar/stop} & \ex{STOP} & \verb|^S| \\
\hline\hline
{SVR4 and 4.3+BSD} & & \\
\exi{ttychar/delayed-suspend} & \ex{DSUSP} & \verb|^Y| \\
\exi{ttychar/delete-word} & \ex{WERASE} & \verb|^W| \\
\exi{ttychar/discard} & \ex{DISCARD} & \verb|^O| \\
\exi{ttychar/eol2} & \ex{EOL2} & \\
\exi{ttychar/literal-next} & \ex{LNEXT} & \verb|^V| \\
\exi{ttychar/reprint} & \ex{REPRINT} & \verb|^R| \\
\hline\hline
{4.3+BSD} & & \\
\exi{ttychar/status} & \ex{STATUS} & \verb|^T| \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Indices into the \protect\ex{tty-info} record's
\protect\var{control-chars} string,
and the character traditionally found at each index.
Only the indices for the {\Posix} entries are guaranteed to
be non-\sharpf.}
\label{table:ttychars}
\end{table}
% Input flags
%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{table}[p]
\begin{center}\small
\begin{tabular}{|lll|} \hline
Scsh & C & Meaning \\
\hline\hline
\Posix & & \\
\exi{ttyin/check-parity}
& \ex{INPCK} & Check parity. \\
\exi{ttyin/ignore-bad-parity-chars}
& \ex{IGNPAR} & Ignore chars with parity errors. \\
\exi{ttyin/mark-parity-errors}
& \ex{PARMRK} & Insert chars to mark parity errors.\\
\exi{ttyin/ignore-break}
& \ex{IGNBRK} & Ignore breaks. \\
\exi{ttyin/interrupt-on-break}
& \ex{BRKINT} & Signal on breaks. \\
\exi{ttyin/7bits}
& \ex{ISTRIP} & Strip char to seven bits. \\
\exi{ttyin/cr->nl}
& \ex{ICRNL} & Map carriage-return to newline. \\
\exi{ttyin/ignore-cr}
& \ex{IGNCR} & Ignore carriage-returns. \\
\exi{ttyin/nl->cr}
& \ex{INLCR} & Map newline to carriage-return. \\
\exi{ttyin/input-flow-ctl}
& \ex{IXOFF} & Enable input flow control. \\
\exi{ttyin/output-flow-ctl}
& \ex{IXON} & Enable output flow control. \\
\hline\hline
{SVR4 and 4.3+BSD} & & \\
\exi{ttyin/xon-any} & \ex{IXANY} & Any char restarts after stop. \\
\exi{ttyin/beep-on-overflow} & \ex{IMAXBEL} & Ring bell when queue full. \\
\hline\hline
{SVR4} & & \\
\exi{ttyin/lowercase} & \ex{IUCLC} & Map upper case to lower case. \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Input-flags. These are the named flags for the \protect\ex{tty-info}
record's \protect\var{input-flags} field.
These flags generally control the processing of input chars.
Only the {\Posix} entries are guaranteed to be non-\sharpf.
}
\label{table:ttyin}
\end{table}
% Output flags
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{table}[p]
\begin{center}%\small
\begin{tabular}{|lll|} \hline
Scsh & C & Meaning \\ \hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{\Posix} \\
\exi{ttyout/enable} & \ex{OPOST} & Enable output processing. \\
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{SVR4 and 4.3+BSD} \\
\exi{ttyout/nl->crnl} & \ex{ONLCR} & Map nl to cr-nl. \\
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{4.3+BSD} \\
\exi{ttyout/discard-eot} & \ex{ONOEOT} & Discard EOT chars. \\
\exi{ttyout/expand-tabs} & \ex{OXTABS}\footnote{
Note this is distinct from the SVR4-equivalent
\ex{ttyout/tab-delayx} flag defined in
table~\ref{table:ttydelays}.}
& Expand tabs. \\
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{SVR4} \\
\exi{ttyout/cr->nl} & \ex{OCRNL} & Map cr to nl. \\
\exi{ttyout/nl-does-cr} & \ex{ONLRET}& Nl performs cr as well. \\
\exi{ttyout/no-col0-cr} & \ex{ONOCR} & No cr output in column 0. \\
\exi{ttyout/delay-w/fill-char} & \ex{OFILL} & Send fill char to delay. \\
\exi{ttyout/fill-w/del} & \ex{OFDEL} & Fill char is {\Ascii} DEL. \\
\exi{ttyout/uppercase} & \ex{OLCUC} & Map lower to upper case. \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Output-flags. These are the named flags for the \protect\ex{tty-info}
record's \protect\var{output-flags} field.
These flags generally control the processing of output chars.
Only the {\Posix} entries are guaranteed to be non-\sharpf.}
\label{table:ttyout}
\end{table}
% Delay flags
%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{table}[p]
\begin{tabular}{r|ll|} \cline{2-3}
& Value & Comment \\ \cline{2-3}
{Backspace delay} & \exi{ttyout/bs-delay} & Bit-field mask \\
& \exi{ttyout/bs-delay0} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/bs-delay1} & \\
\cline{2-3}
{Carriage-return delay} & \exi{ttyout/cr-delay} & Bit-field mask \\
& \exi{ttyout/cr-delay0} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/cr-delay1} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/cr-delay2} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/cr-delay3} & \\
\cline{2-3}
{Form-feed delay} & \exi{ttyout/ff-delay} & Bit-field mask \\
& \exi{ttyout/ff-delay0} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/ff-delay1} & \\
\cline{2-3}
{Horizontal-tab delay} & \exi{ttyout/tab-delay} & Bit-field mask \\
& \exi{ttyout/tab-delay0} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/tab-delay1} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/tab-delay2} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/tab-delayx} & Expand tabs \\
\cline{2-3}
{Newline delay} & \exi{ttyout/nl-delay} & Bit-field mask \\
& \exi{ttyout/nl-delay0} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/nl-delay1} & \\
\cline{2-3}
{Vertical tab delay} & \exi{ttyout/vtab-delay} & Bit-field mask \\
& \exi{ttyout/vtab-delay0} & \\
& \exi{ttyout/vtab-delay1} & \\
\cline{2-3}
{All} & \exi{ttyout/all-delay} & Total bit-field mask \\
\cline{2-3}
\end{tabular}
\caption{Delay constants. These are the named flags for the
\protect\ex{tty-info} record's \protect\var{output-flags} field.
These flags control the output delays associated with printing
special characters.
They are non-{\Posix}, and have non-{\sharpf} values
only on SVR4 systems.}
\label{table:ttydelays}
\end{table}
% Control flags
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{table}[p]
\begin{center}%\small
\begin{tabular}{|lll|} \hline
Scsh & C & Meaning \\
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{\Posix} \\
\exi{ttyc/char-size} & \ex{CSIZE} & Character size mask \\
\exi{ttyc/char-size5} & \ex{CS5} & 5 bits \\
\exi{ttyc/char-size6} & \ex{CS6} & 6 bits \\
\exi{ttyc/char-size7} & \ex{CS7} & 7 bits \\
\exi{ttyc/char-size8} & \ex{CS8} & 8 bits \\
\exi{ttyc/enable-parity}& \ex{PARENB} & Generate and detect parity. \\
\exi{ttyc/odd-parity} & \ex{PARODD} & Odd parity. \\
\exi{ttyc/enable-read} & \ex{CREAD} & Enable reception of chars. \\
\exi{ttyc/hup-on-close} & \ex{HUPCL} & Hang up on last close. \\
\exi{ttyc/no-modem-sync}& \ex{LOCAL} & Ignore modem lines. \\
\exi{ttyc/2-stop-bits} & \ex{CSTOPB} & Send two stop bits. \\
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{4.3+BSD} \\
\exi{ttyc/ignore-flags} & \ex{CIGNORE} & Ignore control flags. \\
\exi{ttyc/CTS-output-flow-ctl} & \verb|CCTS_OFLOW| & CTS flow control of output \\
\exi{ttyc/RTS-input-flow-ctl} & \verb|CRTS_IFLOW| & RTS flow control of input \\
\exi{ttyc/carrier-flow-ctl} & \ex{MDMBUF} & \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Control-flags. These are the named flags for the \protect\ex{tty-info}
record's \protect\var{control-flags} field.
These flags generally control the details of the terminal's
serial line.
Only the {\Posix} entries are guaranteed to be non-\sharpf.}
\label{table:ttyctl}
\end{table}
% Local flags
%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{table}[p]
\begin{center}\small
\begin{tabular}{|lll|} \hline
Scsh & C & Meaning \\
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{\Posix} \\
\exi{ttyl/canonical} & \ex{ICANON} & Canonical input processing. \\
\exi{ttyl/echo} & \ex{ECHO} & Enable echoing. \\
\exi{ttyl/echo-delete-line} & \ex{ECHOK} & Echo newline after line kill. \\
\exi{ttyl/echo-nl} & \ex{ECHONL} & Echo newline even if echo is off. \\
\exi{ttyl/visual-delete}& \ex{ECHOE} & Visually erase chars. \\
\exi{ttyl/enable-signals} & \ex{ISIG} & Enable \verb|^|C, \verb|^|Z signalling. \\
\exi{ttyl/extended} & \ex{IEXTEN} & Enable extensions. \\
\exi{ttyl/no-flush-on-interrupt}
& \ex{NOFLSH} & Don't flush after interrupt. \\
\exi{ttyl/ttou-signal} & \ex{ITOSTOP} & \ex{SIGTTOU} on background output. \\
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{SVR4 and 4.3+BSD} \\
\exi{ttyl/echo-ctl} & \ex{ECHOCTL}
& Echo control chars as ``\verb|^X|''. \\
\exi{ttyl/flush-output} & \ex{FLUSHO} & Output is being flushed. \\
\exi{ttyl/hardcopy-delete} & \ex{ECHOPRT} & Visual erase for hardcopy. \\
\exi{ttyl/reprint-unread-chars} & \ex{PENDIN} & Retype pending input. \\
\exi{ttyl/visual-delete-line} & \ex{ECHOKE} & Visually erase a line-kill. \\
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{4.3+BSD} \\
\exi{ttyl/alt-delete-word} & \ex{ALTWERASE} & Alternate word erase algorithm \\
\exi{ttyl/no-kernel-status} & \ex{NOKERNINFO} & No kernel status on \verb|^T|. \\
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|l|}{SVR4} \\
\exi{ttyl/case-map} & \ex{XCASE} & Canonical case presentation \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Local-flags. These are the named flags for the \protect\ex{tty-info}
record's \protect\var{local-flags} field.
These flags generally control the details of the line-editting
user interface.
Only the {\Posix} entries are guaranteed to be non-\sharpf.}
\label{table:ttylocal}
\end{table}
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% This is the reference manual for the Scheme Shell.
\documentclass[twoside]{report}
\usepackage{code,boxedminipage,draftfooters,makeidx,palatino,ct,
headings,mantitle,array,matter,mysize10,a4wide}
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\parskip = 3pt plus 3pt
\sloppy
\input{decls}
\makeindex
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\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\include{front}
\mainmatter
\include{intro}
\include{procnotation}
\include{syscalls}
\include{network}
\include{strings}
\include{rdelim}
\include{awk}
\include{miscprocs}
\include{running}
\include{changes}
\include{todo}
\backmatter
\printindex
\end{document}