On 4/12/06, Thomas Chust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Graham Fawcett wrote: > > > The mailbox egg does not work on my 2.3 build: it deadlocks on > > mailbox-wait! if the mailbox is empty. [...] > > I think this is not a bug, but rather a desired behaviour. When you > execute mailbox-receive! and the message queue is empty, the calling > thread suspends. But as there are no other threads running, the scheduler > realizes that the calling thread will never become active again and thus > signals a deadlock exception.
Aha! Thank you, Thomas, that makes sense. Graham _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
