On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, rif wrote:
If I start sbcl at a prompt, it starts only one process. If I quit, it vanishes. If I start sbcl from slime, I get four processes. This is why I said it seems to be an SBCL/SLIME interaction issue --- I have no way to reproduce any of this undesirable behavior without SLIME.
Fair enough, in that sense it is a Slime issue: you're not using multiple threads when you start SBCL from shell, but apparently you're using :spawn for Slime. Try :fd-handler or :sigio instead.
Cheers,
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