On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:46:12PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Why don't you like
> while (!finished) {
> someNonTrivialFunction();
> if (fl_check_forms() == FL_EVENT) {
> ...
> }
> }
>
> (I guess that this is what you call a 'busy loop'?)
I think this is fine (assuming that fl_check_forms() only returns when
an event has happened).
Maybe I misunderstood what you wanted to change in Qt. A "busy loop"
would be one that chewed CPU despite no events arriving.
> An alternative to this strategy would be to
>
> 1. Reap the zombies in the child_handler function
Isn't this what you described in your last mail which I said was fine?
regards
john
