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Re: Signal Handling in Guile
- To: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Subject: Re: Signal Handling in Guile
- From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
- Date: 13 Mar 2000 11:00:13 +0100
- Cc: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at chroot dot org>, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Cc: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
- References: <200003130940.SAA19820@pwd.chroot.org> <s3r9dfdwlo.fsf@verisity.com>
Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> writes:
> to clarify: you want thread switches to happen at those "fixed points"
> ("safe points" in RScheme-speak) too, right?
Nope, he's talking about signals. POSIX Guile will thread switch
pre-emptively. We'll only shut it down during GC.