[hunchentoot-devel] CCL/OpenMCL and WITH-TIMEOUT

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:39:40 +0100, "Hans Hübner" <hans at huebner.org> wrote:

> Does anyone here have sentiments regarding WITH-TIMEOUT?  If not,
> I'd propose that WITH-TIMEOUT be totally removed from Hunchentoot.

Not that I'm totally against it, but what's the reason?  Right now,
I'm seeing it as a kind of stopgap solution for Lisps without stream
timeouts.  If you don't have /any/ timeouts, you're pretty prone to
DoS attacks, aren't you?

Can't WITH-TIMEOUT be implemented in OpenMCL 1.2?