Re: [Chicken-users] critical-section not in Chicken 3?

[Graham Fawcett]

On Feb 5, 2008 12:30 PM, Elf <address@hidden> wrote:
> im pretty sure you need mutexes.  its pretty easy though...

Are you saying this because you know (critical-section) behaviour is no longer available in the Chicken runtime? 

Note that
(critical-section) is not a mutex-synchronizing form: it suspends timer interrupts until the body is evaluated (i.e. you are guaranteed that no other threads are executing during the evaluation of the body).

 

(define-macro (protect-section ml . body) 

[snip]

I'd recommend using the excellent
(synch) egg rather than writing a custom mutex-handler.

Best,
Graham