Re: [slime-devel] sbcl stream flushing race

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Robert J. Macomber wrote:

Currently, the patch is sbcl-only. While updating the other backends, I noticed abcl uses the same "thread which FORCE-OUTPUTs" technique, but I don't have abcl here, so I don't know if the same race manifests, if abcl even supports Gray strams, or how to create and use a mutex if the two previous conditions held.

I don't remember seeing this with abcl. abcl doesn't have Gray streams, but SlimeInputStream/SlimeOutputStream tailor-made to make slime happy. I'd love to not having to change them :-) (I've completely forgotten what they do and how they do it!) but I don't want to stand in the way of progress.

Andras