From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:05:49 +1000 Message-ID: <87y7suvu0i.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <87vepora1r.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87y7tqo0po.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87r6zhlhhk.fsf@zip.com.au> <87ejvho4ve.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87mza4uurn.fsf@zip.com.au> <87bqqieohh.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87pset1wxr.fsf@zip.com.au> <87irka4q8f.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <878xl5ah1i.fsf@zip.com.au> <878xl5wh9j.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <878xl0cpu4.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <8764fz76c0.fsf@zip.com.au> <87hczjyt2d.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157756771 23986 80.91.229.2 (8 Sep 2006 23:06:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 23:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 09 01:06:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLpQ8-0006Hu-Qg for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:06:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLpQ8-0003Mf-DF for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GLpQ5-0003Jj-Ua for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:05:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GLpQ3-0003Bf-87 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:05:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLpQ3-0003BP-5e for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.84] (helo=mailout1.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GLpQj-0005o8-PE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:06:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.163]) by mailout1.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9643169FC73; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:05:53 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2327.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.35.39]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id k88N5pIA009926; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:05:52 +1000 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GLpPx-0001vR-U1; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:05:49 +1000 Original-To: Rob Browning Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <87hczjyt2d.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:45:46 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6070 Archived-At: Rob Browning writes: > > I believe a while back I wondered if we might have trouble with > pthreads and fork unless we were very careful, and I'm beginning to > wonder again. Ahh, that sounds likely. If mutexes are unusable once forked then that'd hurt the gc trying to get all threads to rendezvous. Sounds bad for any scheme program that wants to fork, not just ice-9 popen. :-( _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel