Re: [Chicken-users] does adding numbers stop spam?

2007-07-22 Thread Arto Bendiken
On 7/21/07, Brandon Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Making a wiki users add some numbers before they commit an edit was instituted as an anti-spam measure. Did it work? I ask because the CMake authors recently adopted a draconian restriction on their bug tracker, that only the reporter and

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread felix winkelmann
On 7/21/07, Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an app that uses a couple of C libraries. The general problem I'm trying to solve is providing status updates to the user in a timely fashion (ideally, about 750ms). I've tried two approaches, both of which have failed: 1. set-si

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
felix winkelmann wrote: > On 7/21/07, Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have an app that uses a couple of C libraries. The general >> problem I'm trying to solve is providing status updates to the user >> in a timely fashion (ideally, about 750ms). >> [...] > [...] > I can't thin

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:39:10PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: > On 7/21/07, Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >2. A grotesque hack using foreign code and setitimer and such. > >You can find this hack at http://paste.lisp.org/display/44881. > >The problem here is that if the interru

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 03:54:26PM +0200, Thomas Christian Chust wrote: > felix winkelmann wrote: > > > On 7/21/07, Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I have an app that uses a couple of C libraries. The general > >> problem I'm trying to solve is providing status updates to the

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 06:54:29PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 2. A grotesque hack using foreign code and setitimer and such. > You can find this hack at http://paste.lisp.org/display/44881. > The problem here is that if the interrupt kicks off when the > program is busy, the whole program ha

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread felix winkelmann
On 7/22/07, Thomas Christian Chust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunately, CHICKEN apparently doesn't support subsecond resolution for file-select. Indeed. Must fix that. cheers, felix ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org htt

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread John Cowan
Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > > uh oh - running Scheme callbacks in interrupt handlers is > > dangerous: the set of libc functions that may be called inside > > them is restricted, and this is likely to highly risky. > > Can you expand on this a bit? It's a C restriction, not a Chicken one. Basi