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Re: Guile + pthreads + reentrancy?


From: Mikael Djurfeldt
Subject: Re: Guile + pthreads + reentrancy?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:09:26 -0500
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address@hidden 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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