[plt-scheme] DrScheme becomes unstable after using (system ...) function, any suggestions?

From: Yavuz Arkun (yarkun at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 25 10:18:23 EST 2007

Thanks for the info :)

Any idea when 372 might be out?

I have tried building MzScheme/MrEd from SVN trunk with VS Express 2008 
but couldn't build it correctly. (VS Express 2005 download page is 
currently bugged so I cannot get it.) The builds fail with error 
messages about undefined references. Given my complete lack of knowhow 
about VS, Windows C programming etc, I doubt that I can get them working 
anytime soon.

Yavuz

Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:40:34 +0200, Yavuz Arkun wrote:
>   
>> While trying to use the system function from process.ss library, I 
>> discovered that DrScheme becomes unstable after calling this procedure 
>> several hundred times. Here is the bug report that I submitted (#9119):
>>     
>
> Thank you for the bug report! This bug is fixed in the SVN trunk, and
> the repair will be included in v372.
>
> The problem was specific to Windows and the 3m variant of PLT Scheme.
> More specifically, the bug was in the clean-up sequence of a data
> structure that records Windows-level threads, including ones that are
> created to manage Windows-level pipes as Scheme ports, such as the
> pipes created by `subprocess'.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>   



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