Re: sharing a file descriptor with a port

2010-09-17 Thread rixed
-[ Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:03:13PM +0200, Thien-Thi Nguyen ] > Perhaps you can make a port first; then use ???port->fdes??? > for file-descriptor based access; then close the port. Wait a minute, you can close a port ? ... check check check ... Ooookay. I might be blind somehow : Althoug I

Re: short question about books

2010-09-17 Thread rixed
> If you should read only one, then only SICP (and watch the videos). Out of curiousity, what's interresting about the videos ?

Re: short question about books

2010-09-17 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
anog...@gmx.at writes: > Hi awesome hackers, > > i'm a noob. Which book is better for learning programming? > > * SICP http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ > * How to Design Programs http://htdp.org/2003-09-26/ > * anything else Read both, in this order: 1. How

Re: sharing a file descriptor with a port

2010-09-17 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Cedric Cellier () Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:30:46 +0200 Any idea someone ? Perhaps you can make a port first; then use ‘port->fdes’ for file-descriptor based access; then close the port. IOW, start w/ the higher abstraction (port) and let gc DTRT.

short question about books

2010-09-17 Thread anoglad
Hi awesome hackers, i'm a noob. Which book is better for learning programming? * SICP http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ * How to Design Programs http://htdp.org/2003-09-26/ * anything else thank you very much

sharing a file descriptor with a port

2010-09-17 Thread Cedric Cellier
Support I open a file, then make a port with the file description (with scm_fdopen), then I close the file description. When the port will be garbage collected the GC will attempt to close the port->fdes, ignoring the EBADF error, so everything is OK. Now supose I do this in a loop. The next open