Re: [Sbcl-devel] SBCL blocks while reading files from sysfs

[Julian S. <der...@we...>]

Alastair Bridgewater <nye...@li...> writes:

> What I expect is happening here is that the Linux kernel is using the
> "data ready for reading" notification as a "file contents changed"
> notification.  This, of course, breaks SBCL's assumption of straight
> POSIX semantics for select() on files.

FYI, I opened a Linux kernel bug and it was almost instantly rejected:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11014#c2

Regarding the comment "It is weird that lisp has such a strange file io
implementation.": Is there any rationale for doing file I/O this way?

Regards,
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Julian Stecklina

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