Re: scm_shell in C-Thread - Quit vs. Terminal Corruption

[Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>]

kai.selgrad@web.de writes:

> Hej linas,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
>> > application and guile). When I enter
>> >        (quit)
>> > in the terminal scm_shell calls exit(), which does not care much for my
>> > application cleanup.
>> wouldn't atexit() solve this problem?
> Yes, you're right. atexit() would solve this problem. Didn't really
> think about that before... hm :)
> Sadly, the otherway around is much more common (pressing ESC in the
> application window, thus terminating the actual application thread).

Calling scm_shell() with no args means just that that thread will run
`(top-repl)' - whose definition you can see in boot-9.scm.  In other
words you could say that the default args are like `-c (top-repl)'.

`(quit)' means (throw 'quit ...), and the (top-repl) code handles this
by exiting its internal loop.  Then scm_shell() calls exit().

So, if you want something else to happen after `(quit)', such as waiting
for other threads to terminate and clean up, you just need to put code
for that in a procedure named, e.g. `wait-for-cleanup', and then call
scm_shell() with args `-c (begin (top-repl) (wait-for-cleanup)'.

(All in theory anyway, I'm afraid I haven't tested this!)

      Neil