Mark,

Hmm, just realized, to add on top of what you said, method has a major
thread-safety problem if the bytevector output port is accessed from more
than one thread. Definitely need to fix this.


Freja Nordsiek

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote:

> Freja Nordsiek <fnord...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Also, I found one error in the get-output-bytevector procedure in
> > (scheme base), which was that the procedure discarded the bytes
> > already written. get-output-bytevector is not supposed to be
> > destructive to the bytes already written, but the R6RS output
> > bytevector reading procedures are destructive. I made a patch with a
> > very simple fix, which is to just write the bytes back.
>
> Ah, good catch!  I'd like to fix this in a different way though: instead
> of removing the bytes and then adding them back, I'd prefer to modify
> r6rs-ports.c to support this (read-only) operation directly.
>
>      Thanks,
>        Mark
>

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