François,

I am currently working on a multi-platform project and I stumbled on a difference in the behavior of open-tcp-client between MacOSX and Windows (MinGW) using Gambit-C 4.0 beta20. The difference occurs when I open a connection to an address where no server is running and try to read from it. In MacOSX I get an exception and in Windows I get an infinite loop.

I noticed this behaviour too a few days ago (on Cygwin).

If you set a timeout on the input connection, read-line returns #!eof instead of throwing an exception. That's misleading. I think the correct behaviour would be for open-tcp-client to throw an exception, not wait until read-line is called.

Dominique

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