Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile

2014-09-01 Thread Gary Benson
Doug Evans wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Doug Evans > > > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:07:58 -0700 > > > > > > Basically, current Guile (git) starts an internal thread (the > > > "finalizer" thread), and libgc as of 7.4 now starts several > > > marker th

Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile

2014-09-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) > Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:11:19 +0200 > Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii skribis: > > > In GDB, Guile is just an extension language. I see no catastrophe in > > saying there are some restrictions to what a Guile extension in GDB > > can and cann

Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile

2014-09-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Eli Zaretskii skribis: >> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) >> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:11:19 +0200 >> Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org >> >> Eli Zaretskii skribis: >> >> > In GDB, Guile is just an extension language. I see no catastrophe in >> > saying there are some restrictions to what a Guile

Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile

2014-09-01 Thread Doug Evans
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Gary Benson wrote: > Doug Evans wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > > From: Doug Evans >> > > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:07:58 -0700 >> > > >> > > Basically, current Guile (git) starts an internal thread (the >> > > "finalizer" thr

Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile

2014-09-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) > Cc: gdb-patc...@sourceware.org, guile-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:18:45 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii skribis: > > > Perhaps we should request GC and Guile to provide capabilities to > > disable threads at run time, then. > > I don’t think we ne

Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile

2014-09-01 Thread Doug Evans
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) >> Cc: gdb-patc...@sourceware.org, guile-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:18:45 +0200 >> >> Eli Zaretskii skribis: >> >> > Perhaps we should request GC and Guile to provide capabilities to >>

Re: GNU Phishing

2014-09-01 Thread Ian Grant
> It is probably harder to do this to GCC than to a proprietary compiler. > But there is no way to be totally sure. The source code to the proprietary compilers is not published, so I think it's much easier to attack the GNU and OpenBSD tools than the proprietary ones. It doesn't matter how often