How to implement events on Unix?

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Feb 7 23:40:39 UTC 2001


On Wednesday 07 February 2001 15:00, Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:

> I think, there're two important functions:  One to tell the VM about a
> semaphore on which - I guess - the Smalltalk code will wait for the next
> event.  And another to retrieve that event from the VM.  The mac VM seems
> to allocate a circular buffer with 1024 elements to store
> elements.  However, I wonder why the code to signal the semaphore is
> commented out.  Doesn't that means, the whole event stuff doesn't work yet?
>
> Which events (what kind of events) are raised?  And what's about sockets or
> serial port?  Are they still polled or will they also use events?

You might be better off looking at the Windows sources (see my other message 
to the list).

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Ned Konz
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