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From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mit.edu>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, djurfeldt@nada.kth.se
Subject: Re: Guile + pthreads + reentrancy?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:09:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xy7ishwb04p.fsf@chunk.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16442.35630.790674.12804@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (bindej@rpi.edu's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:22:22 -0500")

bindej@rpi.edu writes:

> I did the message-queueing kludge.  It works, although it is messy.
> But it's not reentrant.  If I tell Guile's pthread to call
> scm_eval_string, which in turn calls a gsubr, and that gsubr spawns a
> new pthread which queues a call to scm_makfrom0str, we have a
> deadlock.

One thing you could do is to insert a conditional into the
queue_insert routine which checks whether the caller is the Guile
thread.  If it is, you evaluate the form immediately instead of
queuing it up.

M


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-24 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-23 23:22 Guile + pthreads + reentrancy? bindej
2004-02-24 15:02 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-24 15:44   ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-24 22:58     ` bindej
2004-03-03  0:20     ` bindej
2004-03-03 16:24       ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-03-03 17:35         ` bindej
2004-03-03 16:54       ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-03-03 17:38         ` bindej
2004-03-20 23:02       ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-24 21:19   ` bindej
2004-02-24 21:57     ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-24 23:07     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-02-25  3:06       ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-25 12:54         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-02-24 22:09 ` Mikael Djurfeldt [this message]

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