[plt-scheme] Cleanup on Servlet Timeout (Again)

From: Henk Boom (lunarc.lists at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 29 01:55:56 EDT 2008

2008/8/28 Henk Boom <lunarc.lists at gmail.com>:
> Right, thanks. I was planning on checking the status of done-s when
> handling the fail-s event, but I forgot. Now that I think about it,
> that would be unintuitive behaviour for fail-s, so I've changed it to
> set! fail-s to #f after posting done-s so that I know not to post it
> as well.

. . . which will of course fail when the thread finishes its job and
then terminates, causing both the done-s and thread-dead-evt events to
be available almost at once, and giving me a 50-50 chance of rolling
back changes every time. . . Looks like the other way was better.

This is tricky!

    Henk


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