I await your mutex wisdom; while I wait for tomorrow's post, though --
> How about if the core join-thread takes an optional timeout-val > parameter, like SRFI-18 thread-join! ? If no timeout-val was > supplied, and the join timed out, the core join-thread would return > #f. For join-thread, sure. What about scm_join_thread? Sorry if I'm being obtuse, but my understanding was that you didn't want anything like scm_join_thread_timed and that changing the signature of scm_join_thread was out of the question. (Or should this enhancement only be exposed in Scheme?) Regards, Julian
