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From: Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: libguile thread safety
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:49:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140318104904.69e75af7@bother.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3eexrc6.fsf@netris.org>

On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:37:29 -0500
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
[snip]
> This wouldn't work.  First of all, 'use-modules' is a macro, not a
> procedure, but more importantly, modules are autoloaded in many places
> deep in the guts of the system.  Notice that Chris' test cases didn't
> use 'use-modules' at all.  In fact, a module is autoloaded the first
> time 'scm_c_eval_string' is called.  Also, there are potential
> deadlocks.
> 
> We should just fix the problem properly, and that's what I intend to
> do.

I notice that the thread-safe initialization of guile by
scm_with_guile() seems to have been fixed in guile-2.0.10, but the
loading of modules remains not thread-safe.

Has thread-safe module loading turned out to be too difficult to do, or
is it still something that is likely to happen in the future?

Chris



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-18 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-03 23:34 libguile thread safety Chris Vine
2014-01-04  0:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-04 17:19   ` Chris Vine
2014-01-04  0:08 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-01-04  0:22   ` Chris Vine
2014-01-04  0:56     ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-01-04  1:22       ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-01-04  9:39         ` Chris Vine
2014-01-04 21:28           ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-04  1:59 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-04  9:50   ` Chris Vine
2014-01-04 12:44   ` Chris Vine
2014-01-04 15:01     ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-01-04 17:16       ` Chris Vine
2014-01-04 19:37       ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-04 21:01         ` Chris Vine
2014-01-04 22:43           ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-01-04 23:31             ` Chris Vine
2014-01-05 13:15               ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-01-05 17:37                 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-18 10:49                   ` Chris Vine [this message]
2014-03-18 15:22                     ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-18 19:32                       ` Chris Vine

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