Re: Terrific Dead Lock

[Neil Jerram]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Yes, fine.  Sorry for forgetting about this.
>
> Thanks, applied.
>
>> (I wonder if SCM_CDR (scm_last_plist_filename) on one thread is
>> guaranteed to give a sane value, if there is another thread
>> simultaneously doing SCM_SETCDR (scm_last_plist_filename) - but I'm
>> not an expert in this kind of thing.)
>
> Yes, I suppose that's the assumption, and it's probably a reasonable one
> since `SCM_SETCDR' boils down to a single memory write.

Exactly.  If there is any risk here, I feel happy to live with it for
now.

        Neil