SBCL

with-timeout cannot sanely nest, and is not asynch unwind safe (!)

Bug #744816 reported by Nikodemus Siivola
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SBCL
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

Should be

* made asynch unwind safe

* be deprecated in favor of a better construct

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Douglas Katzman (dougk) wrote :

There is no such thing as async-unwind safety. Witness the fact that our logic for EXIT actually meant "possibly cause deadlock with the C library" which was quasi-fixed in https://sourceforge.net/p/sbcl/sbcl/ci/4a453191 only in as much as you can opt out of the attempt to async unwind things at random.

So this is a non-goal.

Changed in sbcl:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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