Re: [Bordeaux-threads-devel] with-timeout abstraction leaks a bit?

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 08:34 -0800, Peter Seibel wrote:

I was using WITH-TIMEOUT the other day and it seems that it doesn't quite hide the underlying implementation quite enough: on SBCL it signals an SBCL-specific condition when it times out. Thus to handle the timeout you have to either handle that specific condition or something too broad (like CONDITION). Perhaps BT:WITH-TIMEOUT should handle the underlying condition and signal a BT-defined condition so this code can be written portably. I could provide a patch for SBCL (and probably Allegro) if folks think this is a good idea.

I've fixed this: now with-timeout will always signal bt:timeout - which on SBCL is an alias for sb-ext:timeout