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Should guard-foreign-escape use #:callback-exns?? #34

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@LiberalArtist

Now that the #:callback-exns? option for _fun has been added (in racket/racket@bf8741e), maybe guard-foreign-escape should use it:

;; The 'racket VM can handle concurrent callbacks in different Racket
;; threads, because it copies the C stack in and out to implement
;; threads. The 'chez-scheme VM cannot do that, so callbacks have to
;; be atomic. Additional work is needed to allow erroe escapes; we
;; assume that any error happens in an atomic callback that was
;; triggered by a foreign call that disables interrupts (which seems
;; like a fragile assumption!).
;;
;; Atomicity implies that a callback cannot read from or write to an
;; arbitrary port, so we have to "sanitize" a port by adding an
;; intermediary. Unfortunately, this means that reading from a port
;; has to be eager.

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