Re: [Chicken-users] Asynchronous I/O Egg Release

[Robert Smiley]

In all honesty, I hadn't used the make-input-port procedure before. It didn't occur to me to use that to make a nonblocking input port. Your code snippet seems to solve the problem quite a bit better than my egg does.

Is open-input-file*/nonblock in a currently released egg?

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 6:04 AM, Kristian Lein-Mathisen <address@hidden> wrote:

I don't know how useful this is, but I though I'd throw in a test I use as we've encountered this a few times as well in the posix egg:

(use posix srfi-18)

(define mythread

  (thread-start!

   (lambda ()

     (let loop ()

       (define start (current-milliseconds))

       (thread-sleep! 0.1)

       (define elap (- (current-milliseconds) start))

       (if (> elap 500) ;; the 0.1 second sleep took > 0.5 seconds!

           (print "OBS! elap = " elap)

           (loop))))))

(print "cmd: sleep 1 ; echo hi" (with-input-from-pipe "sleep 1.5 ; echo hi" read-string))

(thread-join! mythread)

$ csi -version

Version 4.9.0.1 (stability/4.9.0) (rev 8b3189b)

linux-unix-gnu-x86-64 [ 64bit manyargs dload ptables ]

bootstrapped 2014-06-07

$ csi -s blocking-io-test.scm 

cmd: sleep 1 ; echo hihi

OBS! elap = 1512.0

And this is a code-snippet we use to solve it.

K.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Matt Welland <address@hidden> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Andy Bennett <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

> And of course, reads of files on the file
> system never block at all

A read from a file can block when the operating system needs to go to
disk for the data. This happens when the buffer empties and it cannot be
refilled before the next read call.

I don't know if it applies to this discussion but read blocking can be quite a pain when a network fileserver such as NFS goes offline. It would be nice if other threads would continue so that the program could detect the issue and potentially take appropriate action such as let the user know *why* the program is hung.

 

Regards,
@ndy

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