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From: William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: recv! and thread
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:41:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87veumaxyy.fsf@www.williamxu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d5gykm8l.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:56:10 +1100")

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> i have already tried that..
>
> Oh, I see, in 1.6 it's a bare recv() call, it doesn't cooperate with
> the multi-threading.  Hmm.  Not sure if it's easy to fix that, it
> works in 1.8 because pthreads takes care of all blocking.

oh... but it was cvs guile. I also tried with 1.8, still no luck,
though. :( 

And you also don't have the slib problem? I guess it might be some
platform related issue then. (It's debian on an ibook here.)

> As a workaround in 1.6 I think you can stick in a select call
>
> 	(select (list sock) '() '())
>
> just before the recv!, to wait for sock to have data ready to read.
> (When select blocks it cooperates with the multi-threading, letting
> other threads run.)

This workaround works nice. Thank you so much!  i can continue my little
program again. :)

-- 
William


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      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-10 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-01  5:01 recv! and thread William Xu
2006-03-03 23:44 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-03-04  2:11   ` William Xu
2006-03-07 20:56     ` Kevin Ryde
2006-03-10 19:41       ` William Xu [this message]

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