Re: guile-1.8.1 - problems on AMD64

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> I think it's writing a byte as an inter-thread signaling mechanism.
> It's pretty unlikely that a single byte write will be interrupted, but
> if it is then a retry will be needed, so I think the use of
> SCM_SYSCALL is correct in principle here.

Ok.

> How about this, which is more similarly to the other uses of
> SCM_SYSCALL in the code?
>
>       SCM_SYSCALL (rv = write (sleep_fd, &dummy, 1));

Looks good.  How about also checking whether RV is actually equal to 1
then (and loop if it's lower than 1)?

(I know it is unlikely that RV will be different from 1 but the API
specification leaves this possibility open and it's certainly not
impossible.)

Thanks,
Ludovic.