Re: [Chicken-users] newbie thread questions?

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:01:10PM +0100, J?rg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> > Are there any Chicken packages which are blocking? More specifically, 
> > can I run, using the http package, both HTTP client & HTTP server & some 
> > other user code without being blocked by a slow system call?
> 
> Don't know.  Those I did not use so far.

http just uses tcp ports, so they shouldn't cause problems. However, I
can imagine that when the same program is reading from a tcp port and
writing to the same port on the other end it could cause some kind of
deadlock...?

Cheers,
Peter
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