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Re: Why launch the Guile signal delivery thread on exit? (was Re: guile


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
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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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