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diff --git a/doc/ideas.rst b/doc/ideas.rst index e93e42d..11f8c12 100644 --- a/doc/ideas.rst +++ b/doc/ideas.rst @@ -61,10 +61,11 @@ Core - A CONCURRENTLY combinator for property application specifications, which means to apply each of the enclosed properties in parallel. Particularly useful surrounding a set of DEPLOYS applications, to concurrently deploy a - number of hosts. We use ``WITH-CURRENT-DIRECTORY`` in various places, so we - may not be able to do this using threads. But if we want to do it with lots - of forking, then practically speaking usage of this combinator will be - restricted to connection chains which start up remote Lisp images. + number of hosts. Now that we don't call fork(2) while executing + deployments, we ought to be able to do this using threads, and so it can + work in the root Lisp too. However, we still use ``WITH-CURRENT-DIRECTORY`` + in various places. Perhaps that macro could be changed to only affect RUN, + MRUN etc. for the sake of enabling multithreading. - It might be useful to have a restart for the case where an attempt is made to apply a list of properties containing some ``:LISP`` properties with a |