[slime-devel] What does swank do with streams?

[mikel evins]

I realize the question in the subject line is not specific enough to  
elicit useful answers. I need to ask some questions about how swank  
uses streams, so that I can ensure that forthcoming changes to CCL  
coexist with swank in a civil fashion. Unfortunately, I don't know  
enough about swank to ask intelligent questions.

Basically, what's happening is that we're working on some changes to  
CCL that are intended to make inspection and debugging of running  
Cocoa apps more reliable and convenient. In the course of that work,  
some of the Clozure hackers have noticed inputs and outputs going to  
unexpected places when swank servers are running. They're complaining  
about streams getting snatched out from under them.

Doubtless this is because we don't properly understand what swank is  
doing with the streams. I frankly don't know how to frame an  
intelligent question on this subject, because I don't know enough  
about what swank is trying to accomplish and how it's going about it.  
So, what questions should I ask? My goal is to ensure that CCL  
controls the standard streams in a way it can rely on, while still  
allowing a swank server to be created and run.

If you guys would help me zero in on the right questions to ask you  
about swank's operation, I'd appreciate it.

-me