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Re: guile and multi-threading
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:23:17PM +0200, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
: "Lars J. Aas" <larsa@sim.no> writes:
: > Is the IPC API for Guile threads documented somewhere?
:
: Currently, the best documentation is the source code.
:
: You use scm_spawn_thread to spawn threads and scm_internal_select for
: communication (so that the cooperative threads don't block).
OK, so if I understand correctly, these threads aren't kernel-threads; they
will be just one thread as far as the C-space is concerned...
: The interface to mutecis, condition variables and thread-local data is
: very similar to the pthread one, but with scm_ instead of pthread_ as
: prefix.
:
: For details of these calls, have a look at libguile/coop-defs.h.
: (We're working on a cleanup of this part of Guile. Yes, this might
: mean some changes, but those will mostly be cosmetic. All current
: functionality will continue to exist.)
Thanks for the info.
Lars J