On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> There are limits to how much effort we should make to deal with the
> imponderable possibilities of sabotage. Especially since there is so
> much else we know that we need to do. To throw away all our software
> because of these possibil
On 09/05/2014 12:51 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:51:00 +0100
>> From: Pedro Alves
>> CC: l...@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, gdb-patc...@sourceware.org
>>
>> I'd be strongly against preventing extensions from using threads.
>
> Then how do you propose to deal with the diff
On 2014-09-04 23:37, David Pirotte wrote:
Heya,
ping!
I'm pretty sure it is a guile core and/or a test suite problem, not
related
to corba itself [which as a matter of fact I do not know and do not
use
either :)]
I'd like to solve this problem before to release a guile-gnome-platf
> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:51:00 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves
> CC: l...@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, gdb-patc...@sourceware.org
>
> I'd be strongly against preventing extensions from using threads.
Then how do you propose to deal with the difficulties I listed in one
of my previous messages?
>
Eli Zaretskii skribis:
>> From: Doug Evans
>> Cc: l...@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, gdb-patc...@sourceware.org
>> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:26:28 -0700
>>
>> we can't physically prevent [users] from starting threads.
>
> Of course we can: if Guile gives us a way to disable threads, any user
On 09/05/2014 09:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Doug Evans
>> Cc: l...@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, gdb-patc...@sourceware.org
>> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:26:28 -0700
>>
>> we can't physically prevent [users] from starting threads.
>
> Of course we can: if Guile gives us a way to disabl
> From: Doug Evans
> Cc: l...@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, gdb-patc...@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:26:28 -0700
>
> we can't physically prevent [users] from starting threads.
Of course we can: if Guile gives us a way to disable threads, any user
extension that attempts to start
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 15:04:16 -0700
>> From: Doug Evans
>> Cc: Ludovic Courtès ,
>> guile-devel ,
>> "gdb-patc...@sourceware.org"
>>
>>> Eli Zaretskii skribis:
>>>
>>> > Perhaps we should request GC and Guile to provide capabilities to
>>> > disable threads
