Re: guile and threads (was too complicated)

[Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu>]

erik@msc.tamu.edu writes:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You would use those through the POSIX threads interface to them (once
> > that exists/works). Apps are not supposed to call clone() directly.
> 
> I grepped for "pthread" first.  clone() was a last resort hoping that
> guile just used someone's own special thread library.
> 
> Too bad.  I run SMP, so user threads don't get me nearly as much as kernel
> threads. *shrug*  Will using guile within a threaded application cause
> problems?  I know that X toolkits tend to have problems, but will I have
> anything special to worry about with guile?  I'll only need to call it
> from one thread (for now at least...)

Calling from one thread should work OK. I heard someone was working on
Posix thread support, but I can't even guess when that will be usable.

 - Maciej