[Gambas-user] File watching behaviour

[Benoît Minisini]

@Jussi : I introduce a new thread for the problem. Now for the new year 
people will always create a new thread for a new topic. :-)

In revision #6791 I made the following changes:

- If a watched file descriptor is ready to read, but has no data, then 
the watch is not automatically stopped anymore.

- If the event loop is called too often (because of the last change), I 
make the interpreter sleep a bit (up to 10 ms), so that the CPU is not 
eaten.

Now the expected problems:

- This is not backward compatible. Maybe I should introduce a new 
syntax. For example adding the "CONTINUE" keyword after the "WATCH" 
keyword to keep watching.

- Only the interpreter event loop has the little sleep. Not gb.qt4, 
gb.sdl, gb.gtk and gb.gtk3. So you may eat 100% CPU with these 
components. I will try to find a solution for that.

People, please tell me what you think about that. Especially Ron that 
has the program that watch the biggest number of file descriptors. :-)

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini