[Gambas-user] File watching behaviour

[Jussi Lahtinen]

With latest revision everything work now as expected (watch issue is fixed
and no more circular reference messages)!


Jussi

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Benoît Minisini <
gambas at ...1...> wrote:

> @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
>
>
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