> > 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?) > > Write scm_join_thread_timed(), which implements all the new behaviour. > Map that to join-thread in Scheme - then that's still back compatible, > because the added args are optional. Then rewrite scm_join_thread() > as a trivial function that just calls scm_join_thread_timed(). > > See scm_catch_with_pre_unwind_handler() and scm_catch() in throw.c for > a similar example. > > Does that sound OK to you?
Quite! Thanks.
