Re: Changeset 0306c5a64775

Robert Ransom <[email protected]> writes:

> Before Roderic's patch, waiting-for-external-events? didn't know that
> threads which were waiting on the process-id's placeholder were
> waiting for an external event, just as it still doesn't know that
> threads which are waiting on a signal queue are waiting for an
> external event.

Why would it have to know that?  And, even it were necessary to know
that, it would be easier to look at the condvar's waiters instead of
marking the queues, no?

I still feel I'm missing something important in your argument ...

> Regarding getaddrinfo, I think the Right Thing is to make the Scheme
> interface to getaddrinfo fill in a placeholder, rather than using the
> external event system directly as it does now.  

OK - it still seems to me the hard part is communicating the information
from C to Scheme somehow.

But at this point I really just want to fix the deadlock issue and the
potential bug before the release (which I really, really want to happen
soon).  After that, we can make bigger changes.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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