Re: function call when event loop is idle?

• To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
• Subject: Re: function call when event loop is idle?
• From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Gunnar?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F8nning=22?= <gunnarr@ifi.uio.no>
• Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 14:11:14 +0200
• Cc: paul-law@ix.netcom.com, www-lib@w3.org
• From gunnarr@ifi.uio.no Thu May 2 08: 11:56 1996
• In-Reply-To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen's message of Wed, 01 May 1996 15:19:43 -0400
• Message-Id: <199605021211.27464.menja.ifi.uio.no@ifi.uio.no>
• References: <31874F7A.2A12@ix.netcom.com> <9605011919.AA03531@www18.w3.org>

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

• function call when event loop is idle?
• From: Paul Law <paul-law@ix.netcom.com>
• Re: function call when event loop is idle?
• From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>

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