Re: [Chicken-users] Question about mailbox egg

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 01:42:01AM -0800, Timothy Beyer wrote:
> Dear Chicken Users List,
> 
> Instead of what I expected to see:
> 
> #<thread: primordial>: writing 33
> #<thread: primordial>: reading 33
> #<thread: primordial>: writing 44
> #<thread: primordial>: reading 44 
> #<thread: primordial>: writing 55
> #<thread: primordial>: reading 55
> #<thread: primordial>: writing hello
> #<thread: primordial>: reading hello

You would never see exactly this. The consumer is another thread, not
the primordial one.

> Is the consumer thread just thunked such that it's code never excecutes?

I'm not 100% sure but I think the scheduler simply never gets around to
invoking the consumer thread.  And because when the primordial thread
(the first thread that always exists) exits, the program quits, it is
never executed.

> Is there any easy way to get this behavior?

Try calling (thread-yield!) after writing.

> My apologies if I overlooked anything obvious.  I'm still using chicken 
> 3.5.2, if that helps.

You really should upgrade to Chicken 4 :)

Cheers,
Peter
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