Chaos Eternal <chaoseter...@shlug.org> writes: > then what's the purpose that the asyncs supposed to be ?
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Asyncs.html explains what their purpose is supposed to be. > one thing i know which uses async is signal handler, something else? The 'after-gc-hook' is also run via system asyncs. (ice-9 popen) uses this hook to check 'pipe-guardian' and thus reap pipes that are no longer accessible, which involves clearing entries in 'port/pid-table', a global hash table. Mark
