[Openmcl-devel] Question about 'process-interrupt run on exhausted process'

[Gary Byers]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Denis Bueno wrote:

> On 2/10/07, Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com> wrote:
> [snip detailed and useful explanation]
>
>> This all had something of a familiar ring to it; according to a terse
>> comment in the bleeding-edge CVS logs, I did make that change shortly
>> after 1.0 was released, but never backported it to 1.0.
>> 
>> For 1.0, I -think- that it'd be safe to simply remove the check
>> in PROCESS-INTERRUPT (in ccl/level-1/l1-processes.lisp); in this context,
>> the check leads to an error that amounts to "I can't kill this dead 
>> process!":
>
> Does this mean that one can expect the next release (FSVO "next") to
> have this problem fixed?

Yes, it's been fixed in the 1.1-prereleases since October of 2005.

>
> This issue pretty much means if I release I would have to compile my
> own OpenMCL and bundle it with whatever I release, should I choose to
> use OpenMCL, right?

You can basically bundle a patch as part of what you distribute; something
like:

(let* ((ccl:*warn-if-redefine-kernel* nil)) ; quietly redefine built-in
                                             ; functions.
   (defun ccl:process-interrupt (....)
     ...))


>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> -Denis
>
>