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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: hanwen@xs4all.nl
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GC asserts and threads
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:00:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31vzt953i.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ga53dn$2c7$1@ger.gmane.org> (Han-Wen Nienhuys's message of "Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:58:59 -0300")

On Tue 09 Sep 2008 07:58, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Is there any code in GUILE that would create a thread  (possibly 
> leading to race conditions) when there is no explicit start-thread
> call in the code?  The program (lilypond) does run through the 
> regular GUILE boot procedure.

Yep, when compiled with threads, guile spawns a separate thread to
handle signals.

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-09  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09  5:58 GC asserts and threads Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008-09-09  7:00 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2008-09-09 13:58   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008-09-09 14:53     ` Neil Jerram
2008-09-09 14:06   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys

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