Re: The equivalent of racket's break-thread in guile?

[Nala Ginrut]

If you just need to handle HTTP request or build webapp, I suggest you use my web framework Artanis. It uses Guile inner sever based on thread.

在 2013-6-2 AM7:49，"Xin Wang" <address@hidden>写道：

2013/5/31 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>

Xin Wang <address@hidden> skribis:

> In Guile, the equivalent of kill-thread is cancel-thread, and is there any
> equivalent of break-thread?
>
> [1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/breakhandler.html

If I understand correctly, “breaks” are similar to Guile’s “asyncs”
(info "(guile) Asyncs").

However, I don’t understand what you’re trying to achieve.  Could you
give another example of the behavior you’re after?

I was reading source code of Arc language[1], and wondering if it is possible to port it to Guile.

It define a function to handle HTTP request in srv.arc(L48):

(def handle-request-1 (s)
  --- pruned ---
            (with (th1 nil th2 nil)
              (= th1 (thread
                       (after (handle-request-thread i o ip)
                              (close i o)
                              (kill-thread th2))))
              (= th2 (thread
                       (sleep threadlife*)
                       (unless (dead th1)
                         (prn "srv thread took too long for " ip))
                       (break-thread th1)
                       (force-close i o))))))))

It create two threads to handle a request, one do main stuff and anthor one wait to kill first one if it takes too much time.

Although I'm not quite sure, I think one reason to use 'kill-thread' and 'break-thread' differently is to make sure that exception handler function is fully executed. ('after' is implemented by  dynamic-wind).

[1] http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar

 

Thanks,
Ludo’.