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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:39:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile
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> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:11:19 +0200
> Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > In GDB, Guile is just an extension language.  I see no catastrophe in
> > saying there are some restrictions to what a Guile extension in GDB
> > can and cannot do.
> 
> That can be acceptable, but requiring users to re-build Guile and GC
> without thread support is not, IMO.

Perhaps we should request GC and Guile to provide capabilities to
disable threads at run time, then.