Re: [Chicken-users] remove enable/disable interrupt flag

[Alan Post]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:35:41PM +0200, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> On Sep 29 2011, Alan Post wrote:
> >If a signal is called when C_interrupts_enabled is false, the signal
> >handler turns into a no-op.
> >
> >global_signal_handler calls C_raise_interrupt, but C_raise_interrupt
> >does nothing if C_interrupts_enabled is false, the entire routine is
> >contained in that if statement.
> >
> >My reading of that is that a signal being delivered when
> >C_interrupts_enabled is false wil cause that signal to be discarded.
> >
> >Yes?
> 
> Yes. That's what I've been talking about in the next paragraph.
> 
> With the changes I made (did I post them, did not I?) this problem is gone.
> 
> Hence my question how to clean up the API.  Default to possibly useless
> re-calling the handler (while it assumes possibly having missed a signal
> and hence re-check everything)?  Provide a modified API which covers
> both cases? ...
> 

It may have been posted before I was really attending to this
conversation.  I can't find it in my archive.  Would you mind
sending it to me again?

-Alan
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