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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wip-threads-and-fork
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:20:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762el5qkx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mx7xd4s0.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:32:15 +0100")

Hey!

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:

> How do you feel about raising an error if primitive-fork is called, and
> there are other threads running?

I think I’d prefer a solution where libguile-internal threads and locks
are suitably handled upon fork (basically what wip-threads-and-fork
does), and where users are provided with mechanisms to do the same at
their level–which boils down to exposing pthread_atfork.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-03 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-08 22:10 wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-02-22 21:40 ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-02-23 15:05   ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-02-23 15:49     ` wip-threads-and-fork Nala Ginrut
2012-02-23 16:13       ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-02-24  3:00         ` wip-threads-and-fork Nala Ginrut
2012-02-24 10:21           ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-02-24 14:08             ` wip-threads-and-fork Nala Ginrut
2012-02-24 14:47               ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-02-24 15:25                 ` wip-threads-and-fork Nala Ginrut
2012-02-26 22:03             ` wip-threads-and-fork Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-27  9:44               ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-03-01 19:40                 ` wip-threads-and-fork Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-24 18:57           ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-02-25  2:21             ` wip-threads-and-fork Nala Ginrut
2012-02-25  2:30               ` wip-threads-and-fork Nala Ginrut
2012-02-25 18:01                 ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-02-26  2:35                   ` wip-threads-and-fork Nala Ginrut
2012-02-26 22:00     ` wip-threads-and-fork Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-27  9:39       ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-03-01 19:35         ` wip-threads-and-fork Ludovic Courtès
2012-03-03 16:32           ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-03-03 21:20             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2012-03-04 11:38               ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-03-21 21:26                 ` wip-threads-and-fork Ludovic Courtès
2012-03-22  2:48                   ` wip-threads-and-fork Nala Ginrut
2012-03-23  9:40                   ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-03-27 15:54                     ` wip-threads-and-fork Ludovic Courtès
2012-04-06 18:30                       ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-04-07 22:54                         ` wip-threads-and-fork Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-17 11:41                           ` wip-threads-and-fork Andy Wingo
2012-03-01 19:32 ` wip-threads-and-fork Ludovic Courtès

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