[Bordeaux-threads-devel] with-timeout abstraction leaks a bit?

[Peter Seibel]

I was using WITH-TIMEOUT the other day and it seems that it doesn't
quite hide the underlying implementation quite enough: on SBCL it
signals an SBCL-specific condition when it times out. Thus to handle
the timeout you have to either handle that specific condition or
something too broad (like CONDITION). Perhaps BT:WITH-TIMEOUT should
handle the underlying condition and signal a BT-defined condition so
this code can be written portably. I could provide a patch for SBCL
(and probably Allegro) if folks think this is a good idea.

-Peter

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