[slime-devel] SBCL's with-timeout failed with slime-input-stream

Attila Lendvai attila.lendvai at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 11:09:29 UTC 2010


>    (sb-ext:with-timeout 1 (read *standard-input*))

with-deadline also doesn't work from inside slime, but generally you
should prefer that to with-timeout in production systems.

(with-timeout is not safe due to async unwinds at random points in the
code (unless the entire codebase is prepared for that)).

hth,

-- 
 attila




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