Re: fport_fill_input SIGWINCH error

["Dale P. Smith" <dpsm at en dot com>]

Chris Cramer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:15:26PM -0400, Dale P. Smith wrote:
> > When configured without threads, guile throws an error when the xterm that guile is running in is resized.  My guess is that the read() in fport_fill_input is being interrupted by a SIGWINCH and needs
> > to be restarted.  This does not happen when guile is configured with threads because of the fport_wait_for_input(port) before the read() ???
> 
> The difference between threaded and unthreaded Guile in this case is
> that fport_fill_input just calls read() in unthreaded but in threaded
> it calls select() first. First thing to do would be to check and see
> that the select() call (in coop-threads.c?) is restarted on interruption.

Yes. fport_wait_for_input() loops over scm_internal_select when errno is EINTR.

> Ugh... if I had internet access at home I could post a patch to fix this
> in a few minutes... =^(

Should the read() be restarted or should a select() be before the read?

-Dale
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