[plt-scheme] system function and threads

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 18 12:43:28 EDT 2008

At Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:43:38 -0700 (PDT), pp wrote:
> The following snippet:
> 
> #lang scheme
> 
> (require scheme/system)
> (define t (thread (lambda() (system "pause"))))
> (sleep 1)
> (kill-thread t)
> 
> 
> When run in DrScheme, on XP SP3, works as expected on the first run,
> with control returning to the interaction window after 1 sec, but on
> the next run will leave DrScheme unresponive.
> 
> Any thoughts?

This is now fixed in SVN.


Matthew



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