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From: | Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: | Re: Why launch the Guile signal delivery thread on exit? (was Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw) |
Date: | Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:31 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis: > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes: >> Why isn't the signal delivery thread launched at program start > > The signal delivery thread is not launched until the first signal > handler is installed. This would seem sensible if not for the fact that > it is always launched at exit, which I found surprising. > >> and why is it launched at exit? > > Good question. This behavior was apparently introduced in this commit: > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=commitdiff;h=2e77f7202b11ad0003831fcff94ec7db80cca015 See also: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2011-06/msg00034.html HTH, Ludo’.
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