Re: [Chicken-users] Pipe and thread problem

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Felix,

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:04:37 -0400 (EDT) Felix <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Aaron Patterson <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Chicken-users] Pipe and thread problem
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:30:57 -0700
>
>> Hi, I'm trying to simulate reading from a TTY that writes every two
>> seconds.  I want to do this with a pipe and two threads, one thread
>> writes every N seconds, while the other reads any data available on the
>> pipe.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, my code just hangs.  After speaking with the fine people
>> in #chicken, it seems that this may be a bug.  We played with different
>> calls to put the threads to sleep, and different functions to read data,
>> but they all ended up freezing at some point.
>
> The ports obtained from calls to "open-[input|output]-file*" use
> internally the "stream-port" class (ports on FILE* streams, in this
> case created via fdopen(3)). These are not thread-aware, AFAICT. Ports
> created for socket-fd's (tcp.scm) and processes (posixunix.scm, see
> specifically ##sys#custom-[input|output]-port") apparently do.

>From a user perspective (i.e., without knowing how things are
implemented by Chicken), how can we know what procedures can be used
with threads?

Wouldn't such a misuse of I/O operations in the presence of threads be
a possible cause of #858?


Best wishes.
Mario
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