curious ioProcessEvents comment in sq.h?
Raab, Andreas
Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Sat Feb 10 01:06:38 UTC 2001
Ned,
The comment means exactly what it says; ioProcessEvents is - if you support
the event prims - simply obsolete. It is not even being called.
- Andreas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ned Konz [mailto:ned at bike-nomad.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 9:10 AM
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> Subject: curious ioProcessEvents comment in sq.h?
>
>
> While reading through sq.h, I ran across this:
>
> /* Note: In an event driven architecture, ioProcessEvents is obsolete.
> It can be implemented as a no-op since the image will check for
> events in regular intervals. */
> int ioProcessEvents(void);
>
> But in looking at the the Unix VM source, it looks like the
> only way we're
> going to hear about (for instance) sockets becoming ready is
> via calls to
> ioProcessEvents().
>
> Maybe I'm missing something. What was meant by this comment?
>
> --
> Ned Konz
> currently: Stanwood, WA
> email: ned at bike-nomad.com
> homepage: http://bike-nomad.com
>
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