Re: [Chicken-users] readline blocks threads

[Shawn Rutledge]

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...