[Gambas-user] something's broken (do not know what)

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 14/07/2021 à 00:36, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> 
> This is not directly the pipe the problem, but the `Shell "echo '' > 
> ..."` command that you issue to prevent possible blocking on pipe open.
> 
> If I remove that line, the GTK+ event loop now blocks normally, and does 
> not eat CPU anymore.
> 
> That's strange: if I keep the Shell command, then there is something to 
> read on the pipe, so the "File_Read" event is raised, the data is read, 
> and so there is nothing left inside the pipe, the pipe is not ready to 
> be read anymore, and no event is raised.
> 
> So why then does it make the GTK+ event loop wake up repeatedly (without 
> telling me that the pipe is ready to read)?
> 
> It actually woke up because of an internal timeout parameter (which is 
> normally associated with the earlier timer to be raised) very low. If I 
> remove the Shell initial command, that timeout has the expected value 
> (which correspond to the blinking editor cursor).
> 
> I will try to run a little program with just the pipe...
> 
> Regards,
> 

Same behaviour: reading the pipe ready to read make the GTK+ event loop 
wake up repeatedly even if there is nothing to read anymore on the pipe.

-- 
Benoît Minisini