[slime-devel] Connection to Emacs lost. condition: junk in string

[Helmut Eller]

* Kelly McDonald [2009-06-26 02:03+0200] writes:

> 1) Threads were not available
> 2) the read-packet was getting interrupted by another swank event, it
> would read the packet length from the stream, but the first event had
> not finished yet so it was reading random characters in the first
> event to determine the length of the next packet and it crashed in
> parse-integer
> 3) wait-for-event was being recalled before the event had completely decoded.

In theory, interrupts are queued during wait-for-event and processed at
the next safe point.  If the queue grows to large (3) we invoke the
debugger immediately.  In other words, the user needs to press C-c C-b
three times in a row to get a partially decoded packet.  At least that's
the theory.

Helmut.