Loops and interruptibility

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

On 30/12/15 21:19, Scott L. Burson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The other day I had an inadvertent infinite loop in my code, running 
> in ABCL, and found I was unable to interrupt it with double C-c in 
> SLIME.  In fact, even when I killed the process, restarted it, and 
> started the code with the infinite loop in a new thread, I couldn't 
> kill the thread!
>
> Is this a known problem, or is something wrong with my setup?

With CCL I often have the same problem, so it might be not your setup.
I have list-threads and kill-threads for this:
https://gitlab.com/com-informatimago/com-informatimago/blob/master/tools/thread.lisp
There's also an undocumented slime command: slime-thread-kill ; never 
tried it.

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__Pascal J. Bourguignon__
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