Hi! Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> Oh dear, this is a nasty one. The issue is that Guile's ports are not > threadsafe. I hadn't thought about this one... > > I am adding guile-devel to the Cc for input. Any fix to this will be > pretty big, I think. I think that the right fix here is probably what > Glibc does; see `info libc "Streams and Threads"` for the full details. Indeed, it would probably need per-port mutexes, making I/O primitives thread-safe by default, and perhaps providing unlocked variants like libc does. Putting our fat mutexes on a diet seems like a prerequisite... Thanks, Ludo’.
