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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:39:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y4u3flr2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppffabw8.fsf@gnu.org>

> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:11:19 +0200
> Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > In GDB, Guile is just an extension language.  I see no catastrophe in
> > saying there are some restrictions to what a Guile extension in GDB
> > can and cannot do.
> 
> That can be acceptable, but requiring users to re-build Guile and GC
> without thread support is not, IMO.

Perhaps we should request GC and Guile to provide capabilities to
disable threads at run time, then.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-01 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m31trwv5o1.fsf@sspiff.org>
     [not found] ` <834mwsh2nu.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-08-31 20:20   ` [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile Doug Evans
2014-09-01  2:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-01 10:11       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-01 14:39         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-09-01 16:18           ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-01 17:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-01 22:04               ` Doug Evans
2014-09-02 15:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-05  8:26                   ` Doug Evans
2014-09-05  8:48                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-05 10:51                       ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-05 11:51                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-05 12:48                           ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-05 11:50                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-01 12:48     ` Gary Benson
2014-09-01 16:34       ` Doug Evans

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