Re: [Chicken-users] google summer of code

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:59:31PM +0100, Leonardo Valeri Manera wrote:
> On 05/03/2008, Elf <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >  what is eINIT?
> 
> Lets not veer off-topic, but its an alternative init system for
> uni[xc]es - http://einit.org/
> 
> Currently we're using guile for our scheme modules because we can't
> figure out a way to make 9pfs through libixp, the native threading of
> our c and xml/sh modules, and chicken's threads play nice together -
> blocking io being one of the major stumbling blocks. I don't like
> guile, but at least this way we only have to deal with glibc bugs >_>

Did you check out the chicken 9p egg?  It works in multithreaded apps,
but two threads can (currently) not share one connection to a server.

Cheers,
Peter
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