[Ecls-list] 10.3.1 slime issues

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Matthew Mondor <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net>
writes:

> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:40:27 +0100
> Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is something wrong in your system. If ECL loads ASDF then when REQUIRE
>> is invoked, it should not load profile.fas but profile.asd (which
>> incidentally loads profile.fas). Could you try the same with '-norc'
>
> Thanks for the hint, it indeed worked with -norc, so I then checked my
> ~/.eclrc and there was a line which was inadvertently overriding
> asdf:*central-registry* instead of appending to it.  Fixing that line
> causes multiple instances of require on the same system to work, as
> well as unmodified slime to work.
>
> Sorry for the touble :)
>
> That aside, I noticed that the new swank backend indeed now select(2)s
> as previously discussed here, using the serve-event contrib.  I however
> noticed that the select call uses a very small timeout (about 1/4th of
> a second); is that because it must as well poll a non-selectable source
> for new events?  Or is it unintended?

It's to periodically check for interrupts from the user.

  -T.