[issue1801] lang/guile from pkgsrc hangs in select

Johannes Hofmann johannes.hofmann at gmx.de
Wed Aug 11 07:38:38 PDT 2010


"Samuel J. Greear \(via DragonFly issue tracker\)" <sinknull at leaf.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Samuel J. Greear <sjg at evilcode.net> added the comment:
> 
> I did some poking here and it looks like our select is doing the right thing, so
> I will have to dive the guile source and see what it is trying to do.

Thanks for looking into this! I also browsed the guile sources a bit
and they are using a pipe to wakeup one thread hanging in select()
from another thread by sending 1 byte.
But I tried that in a simple test program and it works ok - must be
something different...

PS: I managed to do my tax stuff by building an old kernel :-)





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