guile/guile-core NEWS

[Marius Vollmer]

CVSROOT:        /cvs
Module name:    guile
Changes by:     Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> 01/02/09 06:36:27

Modified files:
        guile-core     : NEWS 

Log message:
        Blurb about new guarantee of port-for-each

CVSWeb URLs:
http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/guile/guile-core/NEWS.diff?r1=1.244&r2=1.245

Patches:
Index: guile/guile-core/NEWS
diff -u guile/guile-core/NEWS:1.244 guile/guile-core/NEWS:1.245
--- guile/guile-core/NEWS:1.244 Sun Feb  4 10:21:38 2001
+++ guile/guile-core/NEWS       Fri Feb  9 06:36:27 2001
@@ -109,6 +109,15 @@
 
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
+** `port-for-each' makes an additional guarantee.
+
+From the docstring: @var{proc} is applied exactly once to every port
+that exists in the system at the time @var{port-for-each} is invoked.
+Changes to the port table while @var{port-for-each} is running have no
+effect as far as @var{port-for-each} is concerned.
+
+This guarantee is important to make (ice-9 popen) work reliable.
+
 ** The semantics of guardians have changed.
 
 The changes are for the most part compatible.  An important criterion