Guile threading

Charles Day cedayiv at gmail.com
Sat May 31 14:29:04 EDT 2008


On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Keep in mind that most of the gnucash code is NOT thread safe!
>

Ah, so if I started a new thread, it would not be able to safely make any
GnuCash API calls. Hmm.

-Charles


> -derek
>
>
> Quoting Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>:
>
>  I was thinking about using some Guile threading but it seems that thread
>> support is disabled because Guile was built with the
>> --disable-linuxthreads
>> option (set by packaging/win32/install.sh).
>>
>> Is there any particular reason that Guile threads need to be disabled? (If
>> so, then perhaps I could put the threading bits in C.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Charles
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