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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: A new framework for embedding ... without CORBA
From: weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: 1999-10-01 10:29:50
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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
>
>
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