Hi Thomas,

Thomas Chust <ch...@web.de> writes:
> this is expected behaviour: As soon as you close both ports connecting
> your own process to the external one, CHICKEN implicitly waits for the
> external process to terminate. Waiting for termination of a child
> process suspends the whole operating system thread and hence all
> CHICKEN threads.

alright, this makes sense, thanks for enlightening me :-)


> The workings of ports connected to external processes should probably
> be documented more thoroughly, though.

Yeah, I think this behavior is a bit surprising for a person like
me. I'll investigate how to improve the documentation situation!

Thanks again
Moritz

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