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Re: Signal Handling in Guile

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Subject: Re: Signal Handling in Guile
From: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at chroot dot org>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:08:39 +0900
References: <200003130940.SAA19820@pwd.chroot.org><s3r9dfdwlo.fsf@verisity.com>

Michael Livshin wrote:
 > to clarify: you want thread switches to happen at those "fixed points" 
 > ("safe points" in RScheme-speak) too, right?

Not necesarily, because I'm thinking kernel of threads supports.  In
the case of kernel threads, we don't expect any fixed point switch.

 > is your design somewhere online?  not that I'm one who decides
 > anything, but I'm very curious.

Sorry, not yet.

 > > This will become big changes, I know, but I believe that it's really
 > > needed for better Guile.
 > 
 > why would the changes be big?

It would be to remove all DEFER_INT/ALLOW_INTS.
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References:
- Signal Handling in Guile
  - From: NIIBE Yutaka
- Re: Signal Handling in Guile
  - From: Michael Livshin

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