Re: [slime-devel] SBCL's with-timeout failed with slime-input-stream

Hi Attila,

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Attila Lendvai attila.lendvai@gmail.com wrote:

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(sb-ext:with-timeout 1 (read *standard-input*))

with-deadline also doesn't work from inside slime, but generally you should prefer that to with-timeout in production systems.

Thanks for the advice. Being able to restrict the signal in specific code block is very nice.

(with-timeout is not safe due to async unwinds at random points in the code (unless the entire codebase is prepared for that)).

That makes sense, and I suppose using without-interrupts is unacceptable in the body part.

Since the part I want timeouts are all IO function calls, I think it should be safe. But I think I'd better use with-deadline. :)