From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: wip-threads-and-fork Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:41:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87pq14ca0h.fsf@pobox.com> References: <877gzx0ye0.fsf@pobox.com> <878vjupmw7.fsf@pobox.com> <87ipixoajf.fsf@pobox.com> <87sjhx1cii.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4xg8vk0.fsf@pobox.com> <87boog6rnm.fsf@inria.fr> <87mx7xd4s0.fsf@pobox.com> <8762el5qkx.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkbwa95w.fsf@pobox.com> <8762dx7iiz.fsf@gnu.org> <87k42bmz9j.fsf@pobox.com> <874ntayr81.fsf@gnu.org> <87d37klnm2.fsf@pobox.com> <87k41ri24e.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358422874 2791 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2013 11:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 17 12:41:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tvnqd-0006sP-E4 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvnqM-0002on-TR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:41:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51345) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvnqJ-0002oO-EH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:41:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvnqE-0006kP-Ii for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:41:11 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:51441 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvnqE-0006kB-EV; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:41:06 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD58930F; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:41:05 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=YYLgTOZy6fyk uzHtnt1WICqmRRE=; b=Hxfx/vv/HPkcFM1h/GZrnvGmO+y712Fw5MdCcqFE0+lP AhYcHxloVSTi9CLmROuo7VQbzrxDNk951CLBCSbXp+ZnOxI1w+eC0+wTwC8+1rlu xMofWZ85vNdzSxsq1NIf1/LekVhEBqbiAfxtYMa0eaBf690C0XHsAyl1XEWWZjQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=wp0KB7 VqRefh+hoblSJwx5ICKpc1LP77IAqhPps2J3X1C04HRe/p6dOZDOd7swfB/4Uxvt /4gecwYKdnhL/hybY36gBguTWl3qGzHrCrK0OJ839iTD+koTkajrqWkQJ6mBbEr/ wpIIrUrOSTqpIa1iuGonet0K2KpCoWzjrVjVQ= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE99A930E; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:41:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from badger (unknown [88.160.190.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2C2D19303; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:41:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87k41ri24e.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:54:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C6ECA310-609A-11E2-AD70-0A4F0E5B5709-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 208.72.237.25 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:15466 Archived-At: Hi, >>>> On Wed 21 Mar 2012 22:26, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: >>>> >>>>> What about adding a big fat warning in the doc about use of >>>>> =E2=80=98primitive-fork=E2=80=99 in a multi-threaded program? > Andy Wingo skribis: > >> If other threads are active, I think primitive-fork should raise an >> error. But if you think warnings are the way to go, I'm OK with that >> too. Do you still think warnings are the right answer? > > I think so, and with a caveat in the manual. Done: added a warning to stable-2.0, a note to the docs, and changed the error to a warning in master. Andy --=20 http://wingolog.org/