[fpc-devel] daemonapp 100% cpu easting fix
Michael Van Canneyt
michael at freepascal.org
Mon Nov 19 13:24:36 CET 2007
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Micha Nelissen wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > On linux, you can only do polling.
>
> Of course you don't need polling, but the current architecture is only suited
> for polling.
On linux, everything comes down to polling. The only non-polling solution,
signals, are not suitable since you don't know in which thread the signal
ends up, and you must start using complicated inter-thread communication.
In practice, polling is simply much more easy and understandable.
Michael.
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