atomically releasing a lock and waiting on a condition variable
Taylor R Campbell <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:30:18 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.scheme.scheme48 |
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Some months ago on this mailing list, I claimed that it was impossible using Scheme48's optimistic concurrency and thread system to implement an atomic operation that releases a lock and waits on a condition variable, or something to that effect. Shortly after I made the claim, I proved myself wrong by implementing such an operation, and wrote an implementation of a good chunk of the part of SRFI 18 about mutices and condition variables, but subsequently forgot about that code and never turned it into a complete implementation of SRFI 18, as I lack a need for such a beast. For entertainment purposes only, I have put the code up at <http://mumble.net/~campbell/darcs/s48-srfi-18/>.