From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Marton Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: signal handling different in 1.8.3 than 1.8.1? Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:23:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <87zlp3tlrk.fsf@gnu.org> <871w26dqax.fsf@gnu.org> <87bq0w4rgu.fsf@gnu.org> <87hcaoy0ex.fsf@gnu.org> <49dd78620807171347g2a949cc0x6f25c165d4b41409@mail.gmail.com> <87mykfli53.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Gregory Marton NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216380269 27015 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 11:24:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 13:25:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJo5K-0007Kz-0b for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:25:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJo4Q-0005GM-9u for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:24:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJo4K-0005DU-AR for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJo4G-00059K-AE for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52628 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJo4G-000597-3w for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from outgoing.csail.mit.edu ([128.30.2.149]:33596) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJo47-00012c-WD; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ashmore.csail.mit.edu ([128.30.44.32]) by outgoing.csail.mit.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KJo44-00046K-OJ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from gremio (helo=localhost) by ashmore.csail.mit.edu with local-esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KJo44-0006kb-Jl; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:23:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87mykfli53.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:3941 Archived-At: > Hello, > > Gregory Marton writes: > >> I would surmise that this is an extremely longstanding issue that was >> introduced some time before 1.8.1, and that I only noticed it now >> because I was trying to use the default build. > > As I suggested earlier [0], I think it's just a matter of > non-determinism: there's no guarantee as to when system asyncs are run. And as I suggested earlier, I think it is very valuable to have guarantees about when alarms in particular are handled -- that being what they're for. Grem -- ------ __@ Gregory A. Marton http://csail.mit.edu/~gremio/ --- _`\<,_ . -- (*)/ (*) No solicitors over 18. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~_~~~_~~~~~v~~~~^^^^~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~++~~~~~~~