- From: <Jim_Ravan@avid.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:36:15 -0400
- To: www-lib@w3.org
>To be honest, I am not entirely certain why the HTEndLoop variable is not
>set to zero before entering the loop and the "while(!HTEndLoop) { ... }"
>is not changed to a "do { ... } while (!HTEndLoop);". Am I missing the
>point here?
Yes, this is an important point. In some situations code may, for example, look
like:
foo = HT<something>(<some arguments>);
if (foo)
HTEventList_loop(request); /* wait for the request to complete*/
Now, assume that the call to HT<something> essentially fails such that the
request should not continue, but a non-null foo is still returned. The chunk
functions exhibit this property. If there is an end-of-request callback, it will
already have been called during HT<something> processing, and the callback may
have called HTEventList_stopLoop() and set HTEndLoop to 1, but HTEventList_loop
has not yet been entered. Thus if HTEndLoop is set to 0 by HTEventList_loop, it
would not recognize that the loop should not even be entered.
I had this exact problem in my libwww code.
regards,
-jim
Received on Wednesday, 23 June 1999 09:45:19 UTC