Re: Minor POSIX overhaul

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:50:40PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>    Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:58:08 -0700
>    From: Will Noble <[email protected]>
> 
>    I modified the POSIX module so that Scheme code instead of C code
>    manages PID/errno/signal objects. So, where before posix_kill took
>    a PID record and a signal record, now it takes ints. I think the
>    comments hinted towards something along these lines. This removes
>    a good chunk of awkward (in my view) Scheme-written-in-C code.
> 
> Moving the OS's values for all these things into Scheme makes heap
> images OS-dependent.  That may be appropriate for your application,
> but it's an undesirable property for Scheme48 in general.

Hi Taylor,

Thanks for the quick respone! Is the issue you mention a problem
even when, as before, symbolic errnos/signals resume correctly
(by name) while numeric ones and PIDs are marked unresumable?
I'm probably misunderstanding something but aren't users free
to grab these records with OS-dependent values and put them
wherever they want, even when C code manages the whole collection?

Best,
Will