From kde-core-devel  Fri Oct 01 10:29:50 1999
From: weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:29:50 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: A new framework for embedding ... without CORBA
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93877353000420

Hi,

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Dirk A. Mueller wrote:

> weis <weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> 
> >> Do any blocking IO and you're dead. ;-)
> > Then do non blocking IO :-)
> 
> Under bad circumstances, even read(fd, buf) is blocking you long enough
> to miss the screen update ( I remember my old cdrom that needed 4-5
> seconds to spin-up after a long sleep period).
> 
> when you're starting to even do the readdir() or every other second
> system call async by forking, it's time to think about threads ;)

readdir is a bad guy. I see now way to read directories async. That
was one more reason for making kioslaves run in their own processes.
I did not want to block konqui with a slow or hanging drive.

Bye
Torben

> 
> -- 
> Dirk A. Mueller
> 
>