From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Terrific Dead Lock
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:29:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlrto86j.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tzi2yv3o.fsf@gnu.org> (Ludovic Courtès's message of "Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:03:55 +0200")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hi,
>
> Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
>
>> Yes, fine. Sorry for forgetting about this.
>
> Thanks, applied.
>
>> (I wonder if SCM_CDR (scm_last_plist_filename) on one thread is
>> guaranteed to give a sane value, if there is another thread
>> simultaneously doing SCM_SETCDR (scm_last_plist_filename) - but I'm
>> not an expert in this kind of thing.)
>
> Yes, I suppose that's the assumption, and it's probably a reasonable one
> since `SCM_SETCDR' boils down to a single memory write.
Exactly. If there is any risk here, I feel happy to live with it for
now.
Neil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 22:29 Terrific Dead Lock Ludovic Courtès
2008-03-14 10:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-03-17 23:20 ` Neil Jerram
2008-03-18 21:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-04-14 14:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-04-15 21:06 ` Neil Jerram
2008-04-16 10:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-04-16 20:29 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
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