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

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 08:34 -0800, Peter Seibel wrote:
> 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.

I've fixed this: now with-timeout will always signal bt:timeout - which
on SBCL is an alias for sb-ext:timeout

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
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