On Feb 1, 2014, at 14:54, James M. Lawrence <llmjjmll@gmail.com> wrote:
(defun test () (let ((object (cons nil nil))) (threads:synchronized-on object (threads:object-wait object 0.0001))))
For times between 0 and 0.0001 this appears to hang indefinitely. No problem with times above 0.001.
The context is the new timeout option for bordeaux-threads:condition-wait,
https://github.com/sionescu/bordeaux-threads/blob/master/src/impl-abcl.lisp#...
1.3.0-dev-svn-14623 Java_HotSpot(TM)_Server_VM-Oracle_Corporation-1.7.0_04-b20 i386-Linux-3.2.0-24-generic-pae
Filed as [ticket-345][]. We need to possibly use the sub-millisecond timeouts afforded by the NIO interfaces, which may not be present all the way back to Java 5. [ticket-345]: http://abcl.org/trac/ticket/345 -- "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing to compare to it now."