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Re: function call when event loop is idle?
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org> said:
> On Unix, you can register a timeout callback function to be called when
> select() times out. You can register the function to be called always - that
> is - both when loads are going on and when the Library is idle, or you can
> register it only to be called when the Library is waiting for a request.
> Unfortunately you can only register one timeout function as select() doesn't
> support more than this.
> On Windows, it uses SetTimer() and I am not sure about if the functionality
> matches - Eric?
Since I found the ASYNC interface under Windows 95 to be very buggy in
libwww, I switched to using select and the use of the timeout interface in
library to handle user events. This worked just fine, both under Win95 and
Unix. And it's a bit more portable than registering X connection sockets
with the library...
Gunnar
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