[Ecls-list] 10.3.1 slime issues

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll

> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
>
>> It's to periodically check for interrupts from the user.
>>
>
> I would have said that serve-event (via select) already checks for
> interrupts. Am I wrong?

We install a handler on SIGINT, actually, but that only queues up
interrupts and processes them at known safe place; I did not implement
it so I do not know the exact details, but I see it's used to disallow
recursive interrupts e.g. during setting up the debugger. Guess that
makes sense.

  -T.