Hi, Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> On Fri 17 Feb 2012 23:59, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> What about using asyncs for that? For instance, scm_i_finalize_smob >> make a [deferred], instead of direct, call to the SMOB’s ‘free’, via >> scm_i_queue_async_cell. > > It's an interesting idea. I suspect that it only defers the problem, > though: if we start running finalizers through asyncs, we'll run into > problems with locks at the scheme level. > > That is to say, just because you are in Scheme does not mean you can > acquire any lock without deadlock. Sure, but the libguile-level lock issue would go away, wouldn’t it? Ludo’.
