Re: [Chicken-users] readline blocks threads

[Elf]

there is a way to do this.  its just very painful.  im working on a readline-ng
egg with the changes, as the existing readline wont work.

-elf

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Shawn Rutledge wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jim Ursetto <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  Did you try using rlwrap?  It works fine here.
> >
> >  $ rlwrap csi
> >  #;1> (use srfi-18)
> >  #;2> (thread-start! (lambda () (let loop () (printf "loop~%") (thread-sleep! 1)
> >  (loop))))
> >  #<thread: thread0>
> >  #;3> loop
> >  loop
> >  loop
> >  loop
>
> That's interesting.  But I figured it's a bad design for the dbus egg
> to only work under some circumstances, and I found one that will not
> work if I bury the pollling thread inside the egg.
>
> Maybe the answer is that srfi-18 is a toy, don't take it too
> seriously... or just don't depend on it, because it's up to the user
> to choose to use it or not.
>
> It's a general pattern that I'm looking for: what to do when an egg
> needs to do polling and/or callbacks...
>
>
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