Michael Schnell wrote:
On 08/21/2013 02:36 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
I know it's the obvious way, but surely there is something more
elegant than having a thread which exists solely to transfer the
result of a select() to the main part of the app, and then repeats
I suppose a thread is the only way to do this in a portable way.
The cost of a thread is close to zero. It just blocks in the requests
and does a single turn for any change.
[Noting also Henry's comment] I suppose that, at least for unix
platforms, you could have a single app-wide thread which selects on
designated handles and syncs a magic number to the foreground. The
tricky bit, which would merit attention from somebody who really knows
the native APIs, would be adding and removing handles on the fly.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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