Re: Question about an error with ports

[Chris Vine <vine24683579@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:26:50 +0000
Chris Vine <vine24683579@gmail.com> wrote:
> Notable procedures which it appears remain as non-suspendable are
> get-bytevector-all, get-string-n, read, write and display, but to be
> sure about the first two of those I would also need to read the source
> again.  A few years ago I had some test code to test which procedures
> were suspendable and I will also have to see if I can find it again.

I have resurrected my old test code and I can confirm that
get-bytevector-n, get-bytevector-n!, get-bytevector-some and
get-bytevector-some! are now suspension safe in guile-2.2.6 and
guile-3.0.8, but get-bytevector-all, get-string-n and get-string-n!
remain unsafe.

Interestingly the read procedure remains unsafe in guile-2.2.6, but
seems to be safe in guile-3.0.8 even though I cannot see what in the
code has changed.  I have yet to re-equip my tests to test the write and
display procedures, or to see what effect this has on http-get,
http-put and the like.

Chris