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Portable channel-based concurrency for Common Lisp
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*boss* thread preventing SBCL from dumping images #7

Closed zkat closed 9 years ago

zkat commented 9 years ago

I got this via email -- posting it here:

I have a little project of mine in common lisp, and I tried to run it on a "new" computer an hour ago. This being a fresh install, it used the latest release of chanl from quicklisp. But my build failed because it could not save a core image.

(P.S. I am using sbcl from HEAD)

The problem is that sbcl cannot save core images that have multiple running threads. I dug the problem up and I found that it was chanl that was creating the superfluous thread. I dug up a little bit more and I found that the thread was created at the initialization of the boss special variable.

Sooooo, is there a way that I can post-pone the initialization of the boss variable?

TL;DR:

The thread created for boss is causing me pain, what can I do for that?

adlai commented 9 years ago

The immediate fix is chanl.actors::(halt *boss*), which will let you save the image, and shouldn't affect the rest of the library if you're not relying on this facility.

A proper fix will be pushed Soon™.

fstamour commented 9 years ago

It worked like a charm. Thanks! (I was the one who send that email.)