Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis: > Bruno Victal <mi...@makinata.eu> skribis: > >> Original discussion (IRC): >> <https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2023-04-29.log#180735> > > [...] > >> (procedure >> #~(lambda (x) >> ;; Scenario 1: using code from (gnu services herd), this >> hangs shepherd >> #;(start-service 'dummy) ; hangs shepherd > > (gnu services herd) provides a client to talk to the shepherd process. > However, the code of actions runs in the shepherd process itself, so > there’s no need to use the client library. Don’t do that. :-)
Also, the socket created in (gnu services herd) lacks SOCK_NONBLOCK so the code above is bound to block forever. Ludo’.
