Re: race condition in run-time system

Michael Sperber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.scheme48
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Taylor R Campbell <[email protected]> writes:

> The procedure PERIODICALLY-FORCE-OUTPUT! in rts/port-buffer.scm should
> disable interrupts, or else concurrent calls to it may cause ports to
> be omitted.  (This is unlikely to happen; the problem has been in
> Scheme48 since 0.38, and probably no one has ever encountered it.)

Could you elaborate a bit on where the race occurs?  I don't see it,
despite staring at it for a while.  (I see that it may get in the way of
itself, but only in inconsequential ways.)

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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