>
>
>> I am looking for a quick way to do the equivalent of
>> s = commands.getoutput ("ls " + name + "*")
>> in Ocaml.
>>
>
> I have translated many of the examples from the Perl Cookbook for  
> the Process Management and Communication chapter of the OCaml  
> PLEAC. This is one of the topics covered.
>
> http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ocaml/processmanagementetc.html
>
> Dave
>

There is a problem with the read_process_lines function though: if  
the output buffer gets too long the process does not return to close  
the input channel. Consequence is that the spawning process is blocked.

That's a problem I do not know how to solve.

Axel