[slime-devel] Re: Allegro and *globally-redirect-io*

[Helmut Eller]

* Gábor Melis [2008-04-08 11:58+0200] writes:

> Workaround for longstanding issue with allegro and 
> *globally-redirect-io* not working as intended.
>
> This prints HELLO to the *inferior lisp buffer:
>
> (mp:process-run-function
>  "Test"
>  (lambda () (loop (sleep 2) (print 'hello))))
>
> because allegro repl binds the standard streams and the global io 
> redirect effectively modifies the thread local binding.
>
> The workaround is called from initialize-multiprocessing which may not 
> be the best place.

Indeed.  And it should only be done if *globally-redirect-io* is true.

Helmut.