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 _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users