On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:55 PM, <kentoz...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> I wrote a directory scanner application that spawns 4 different threads with
> independent rescan intervals and need to repeat the process if and only if a
> thread has completed a scan. Basically, for each file type I'm watching, the
> process is
>
>
> 1. Spawn a thread to sample files of the specified type
> 2. Wait until the thread completes
> 3. Schedule another pass after a given time interval has passed.
Seems like you're adding a lot of complication for what is essentially
a continually running operation. Instead of that, why not do this?
1. Spawn a thread.
2. Sample files.
3. Sleep.
4. Goto 2.
Or, in code:
- (void)threadMethod {
while(1) {
[self sampleFiles];
sleep(5);
}
}
Mike
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