Re: Some introductory docs about C level threading

[Rob Browning]

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> Yes, I imagine that this is the hard part. But it might be the
> really useful one, epecially for non-Guile apps onto which a Guile
> interpreter gets tacked. My standard examples are Apache or the
> PostgreSQL server. Those have their own signal handlers and so
> on. As a module writer you get just a hook (and there you won't be
> in Guile mode). So if you want to write your handlers in Guile,
> you'd need some way of saying `call this when it's safe'.

Though it might be to slow, a simple alternative would be to just have
a guile thread watch a C data structure that the server signal handler
manipulates.

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Rob Browning
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