Is It Possible to Rewrite a syscall from C in Common Lisp?

• cmucl-direct-syscalls

  1 15 10.0 Common Lisp

  Douglas Crosher's public domain code for direct system calls from CMUCL on Linux

Sure. Here’s an example in cmucl: https://github.com/xach/cmucl-direct-syscalls

• iolib

  4 139 2.5 Common Lisp

  Common Lisp I/O library

Perhaps the easiest approach is to use the foreign function interface (FFI) of your compiler and wrap the types and functions of unistd.h. One example: https://github.com/sionescu/iolib/tree/master/src/syscalls. Alternatively, you could use syscall

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• yew

  3 33 9.2 Common Lisp

  𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚘no𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚘 (by nibbula)

It's possible, but you can observe how much trouble it can be in opsys , which doesn't depend on any C headers or do any grovelling. You may be suprised the amount of syscall instability papered over by libc.

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