Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:

>> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
>> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:11:19 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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.

I don’t think we need to go this far: reading the recent discussions, it
seems Doug found a way to make sure Guile’s and libgc’s internal threads
don’t receive signals that GDB is interested in, which should be enough
for practical purposes.

Ludo’.