Re: [Chicken-users] newbie thread questions?

[F. Wittenberger]

Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 13:23 +0100 schrieb Peter Bex:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:01:10PM +0100, J?rg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> > > Are there any Chicken packages which are blocking? More specifically, 
> > > can I run, using the http package, both HTTP client & HTTP server & some 
> > > other user code without being blocked by a slow system call?
> > 
> > Don't know.  Those I did not use so far.
> 
> http just uses tcp ports, so they shouldn't cause problems. However, I
> can imagine that when the same program is reading from a tcp port and
> writing to the same port on the other end it could cause some kind of
> deadlock...?

As long as you have independent threads on each fd, there's not going to
be any problem.  I'm using this self calling as a regression test in my
build process.  Works hundreds of times in a row.