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

[Helmut Eller]

* mikel evins [2009-06-04 20:40+0200] writes:

> When the CCL Cocoa app starts up, it also starts its glass TTY  
> process, AltConsole. It creates a socket pair, connecting AltConsole's  
> standard output, standard input, and standard error to one end of the  
> socket, and CCL's *TERMINAL-IO* to the other end. We require the  
> ability to guarantee the integrity of those stream connections. Is  
> there a way to guarantee that integrity when swank is loaded and a  
> server created? I'm perfectly willing to change CCL code or swank code  
> to accomplish it, if need be. One way or another, though, that  
> integrity is a requirement at our end.

As long as you set swank:*globally-redirect-io* to nil (in ~/.swank.lisp
or before calling swank-loader:init) it should be pretty save to load
Swank.  Setting swank:*global-debugger* to nil is probably also a good
idea.  Additionally you can make swank::with-io-redirection a noop to
prevent Swank from dynamically rebinding stream variables.  If all this
doesn't help than the problem is probably not related to Swank's
streams.

Helmut.