On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:28:57 +0100 Andreas Volz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Am Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:19:38 +0900 schrieb Carsten Haitzler (The > Rasterman): > > > then this dispatcher needs to be threadsafe too. either way - you > > need to make something threadsafe, and pipes/fd's already are :) > > personally i ask - why do you need threads? threads are for people > > who can't schedule their own code (or in rare cases when api's or > > syscalls literally may block for long periods and you have no > > choice). > > The gpsd API creates a thread which creates (more or less) asynchronous > a callback function with GPS information. I'm sure this could be done > without threads, but gpsd uses threads. So I've to live with it and > sync it with my GUI. :-) oh - god. those api's SUCK. they impose threads on their callers, like it or not. very evil. threads should (imho) be hidden from any calling process. libxine does this and i did some evil stuff to hide this in emotion and merge it all back to the main thread - i used fd_handlers too (and a pipe). it seems to work just fine as it's being used for every frame that is rendered. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
