Re: recv! and thread

[Kevin Ryde]

William Xu <address@hidden> writes:
>
> i have already tried that..

Oh, I see, in 1.6 it's a bare recv() call, it doesn't cooperate with
the multi-threading.  Hmm.  Not sure if it's easy to fix that, it
works in 1.8 because pthreads takes care of all blocking.

As a workaround in 1.6 I think you can stick in a select call

        (select (list sock) '() '())

just before the recv!, to wait for sock to have data ready to read.
(When select blocks it cooperates with the multi-threading, letting
other threads run.)