From: Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Redoing conditional thread support
Date: 15 Oct 2002 12:43:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ljr8eshtit.fsf@burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021014233522.A13138@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com>
Christopher Cramer <crayc@pyro.net> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:51:01PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> > I'm about to reorganize our conditional threading stuff so that there
> > is always a thread API (scm_current_thread, scm_call_with_new_thread,
> > mutices, condition variables, etc), but when you configure
> > "--without-threads" you get a null-thread implementation that doesn't
> > allow the creation of new threads. Thus there will always be only a
> > single thread.
>
> I assume scm_call_with_new_thread without threads would work like
> scm_catch?
No, it would throw an error.
> And I guess trying to lock a mutex that's already locked would give
> an exception.
No, it would block until the mutex is unlocked, which might be done by
a async. I'm not sure whether that's a good idea, tho...
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-10 14:51 Redoing conditional thread support Marius Vollmer
2002-10-11 21:37 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-11 22:49 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-12 19:38 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-15 4:35 ` Christopher Cramer
2002-10-15 10:43 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2002-10-15 13:00 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2002-10-15 18:28 ` Marius Vollmer
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