On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Helmut Eller <heller@common-lisp.net> wrote:
* Elliott Slaughter [2009-12-08 01:21+0100] writes:

> When I try 0 as timeout, I get this error:
>
> The assertion (OR (NOT SWANK::TIMEOUT) (EQ SWANK::TIMEOUT T)) failed.
>
> When I use t as timeout, it does basically what I want, but I'd rather have
> the timeout be immediate (no wait). Is there any way to do this?

Sorry, the argument should indeed be T and not 0.  T means "nowait" and
NIL means wait indefinetly.

Thanks. Works like a charm, even on Windows/SBCL :-)

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Elliott Slaughter

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