On Tuesday 23 March 2004 8:07 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 07:38:48PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Me too, if only because hacking into the Qt event loop turns out > > to be a right PITA. > > > > Nonetheless, playing devil's advocate, why is Strategy 2 better > > than the existing strategy of using a Timeout to reap the > > children also? (Genuine question.) > > Because zombies are a global resource user whereas an internal list > of dead children is not. Our list doesn't sit in the process table.
Bootiful. Thank you. > > > What routines need to know about children that have died? > > 'I'd rather say 'Completed' than 'Died'. 'Died' is so emotive ;-) > Bah, it's a UNIX tradition! > "So my child zombies died, but weren't reaped so I had to kill > their parent." What ever happened to the quote of the month? ;-) > > The graphics loading code needs to know that an image file has > > been converted to a loadable format so that it can begin the > > process of loading the thing. > > A-ha! Don't we have a flashing cursor? Can't the callback do a > quick check of a sigatomic_t somewhere and call into the > sigprocmask-protected code? > > IOW we already have periodic code, we can do the poll cheaply, no? John, have a medal! Thank you! Angus
