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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Subject: Re: Code review for thread safeness
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:18:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oedvvssk.fsf@zagadka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fyz75bja.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:36:09 +1100")

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> writes:
>>
>> If there might be non-local exits, scm_frame_critical_section can be
>> used instead.
>
> If an error occurs and a lazy-catch executes, is the mutex unlocked
> for that handler?

No.  Good point.  Hmm.  I haven't thought about lazy catches at all,
yet...  They are like asyncs but can not be blocked.  But, they are
not as much uncontrolled as asyncs.

The important point here is that a critical section is not reentered
when it is not designed to allow this.  When a lazy handler tries to
reenter it, an error is signalled when scm_frame_critical_section is
used with a non-recursive mutex.  I think this is appropriate.

> The ones I've spotted are (I might have posted this before),
>
> 	gethostbyname
>         getpwuid
> 	setpwent (etc)
> 	getgrgid
> 	setgrent (etc)
> 	setlocale
> 	scm_mem2symbol 
>
> or scm_i_mem2symbol or whatever it is now.  I probably won't get a
> chance to actually do anything about these.

Thanks, I'll check them.

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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-07 22:04 Code review for thread safeness Marius Vollmer
2005-03-07 22:36 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-03-08  1:18   ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2005-03-08  3:18   ` Ken Raeburn
2005-03-09 14:48     ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-09 16:23       ` Andreas Rottmann
2005-06-18  5:03         ` Ken Raeburn
2005-12-06 18:58   ` Marius Vollmer

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