[gambit-list] open-tcp-client problem?

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri Aug 26 09:22:09 EDT 2005


You are right... open-tcp-client should block the thread until the  
connection is established.  What is important is to not block the  
Scheme process, so that other threads can progress.  I will change  
this for the next release.

Marc

On 9-Aug-05, at 9:24 AM, Francois Magnan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ok, this is a nice feature but it could be implemented by the  
> programmer using threads . If I want a sequential behavior I will  
> have to loop by catching connections errors until the connection is  
> completed. The loop will also have to distinguish between real  
> connection errors and "still not connected" errors. This is a  
> little odd to me but I can write such a function.
>




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