[Gambas-user] Receiving events on an array of process objects

[PICCORO McKAY Lenz]

2018-05-25 9:03 GMT-04:00 Tobias Boege <taboege at gmail.com>:

> What really happens is that you fork() a lot of processes, which execve()
> the program that you specify in the EXEC instruction. Those are separate
> processes now whose three main file descriptors are linked into the main
> Gambas process via pipes (depending on whether you Exec For Read|Write).
> Gambas takes those file descriptors and watches them in its event loop.
>
> It is like opening multiple sockets at the same time. You get an event
> when any of them has data for you. If all of them have the same event
> name, those events happen to be raised with the same prefix. No threads
> are involved and there is no concurrent execution of Gambas code.
>

GRRR works like pascal or ANSI C! ok got it!


>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
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