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 /* Note: In an event driven architecture, ioProcessEvents is obsolete.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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