[bknr-devel] Recursive locks problem on sbcl

[Kamen TOMOV]

On Tue, Oct 02 2007, Denis Mashkevich wrote:

> Hi Hans,
> the problem we've spoken of yesterday on irc (recursive lock attempt
> warning on sbcl using bknr datastore) proved to be trivial to solve
> - there is a primitive in sb-thread for exactly this case. I have
> not tested it extensively yet, but it appears to work. The patch is
> attached.

Could you please elaborate on the problem? What happens with the
datastore in SBCL without the patch?

> FWIW, being unable to load some third-party libraries supplied with
> bknr (mainly cxml and unit-test), I ditched thirdparty altogether,
> installed all the newest versions of whatever bknr-indices and
> bknr-datastore depend on, and both seem to work.

Some time ago I wrote a patch that dumped cxml for the purpose of
using cmucl-19d. Hans, do you think we can apply (some modified
version of) it?

Best regards,

-- 
Kamen