Re: [bug #33996] 2.0.2: Crash related to ports and threads

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 18 Aug 2011 15:42, address@hidden writes:

> -[ Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:36:37AM +0200, Andy Wingo ]----
>> Oh dear, this is a nasty one.  The issue is that Guile's ports are not
>> threadsafe.  I hadn't thought about this one...
>
> Aren't they supposed to be? I though that was what scm_i_port_table_mutex
> was there for.

No, that is to protect the port table, not the ports themselves.  See
fport.c:fport_write for an example of an unsafe function.  This will be
nasty to fix correctly.

Andy
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