[iolib-devel] plans/status of the stream code

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:17 +0200, Attila Lendvai wrote:
> dead list,
> 
> i've recently encountered a headache: a machine was connecting to our
> iolib based web server, and hanged all the worker threads. the problem
> is that the connection went try, but it didn't get disconnected after
> several minutes.
> 
> the hang is somewhere inside (defmethod stream-read-byte ((stream
> dual-channel-gray-stream)) ...).
> 
> the proper fix would be to implement the call/cc based connection
> multiplexing and gc dry/slow connections. i'm going to work on it in
> the upcoming weeks, but i wonder what are the plans regarding the
> upcoming iolib development?
> 
> Stelian said that he has plans with the streams, notably to prefer
> zstreams eventually, but it's not ready yet.

I'd like to finish the zstreams, but I don't know how much time I'll be
able to dedicate to it

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib
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