From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12074 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2014 10:11:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 12061 invoked by uid 89); 1 Sep 2014 10:11:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:11:42 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XOOaI-00016G-33 for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:11:38 +0200 Received: from pluto.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.57]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:11:38 +0200 Received: from ludo by pluto.bordeaux.inria.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:11:38 +0200 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile Followup-To: gmane.comp.gdb.patches Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87ppffabw8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834mwsh2nu.fsf@gnu.org> <8338ccgj78.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 15 Fructidor an 222 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.130011 (Ma Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii skribis: >> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:20:48 -0700 >> From: Doug Evans >> Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" , guile-devel >> >> Users are going to want to start threads. > > If users want threads in Guile, they can use Guile. > > 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. Ludo’.