On 18/03/07, Timo Horstschäfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jonathan Gordon wrote: > > >Timo Horstschäfer wrote: > > >I think some kind of a disk write-queue would achieve the same. > > >Or maybe just a global write buffer, that flushes on every disk spin up. > > > > Thats surely a better idea, and i think it could be used in general, not > > only in plugins. Would it be hard to code? > > This exists already, but isnt really useable in the current form for > plugins. The way it works is a function registers a callback for when the > disk is going to spin down... but this wont work for functions because they > may not be in memory at that point anymore. A write-buffer would be independant from plugins. The write function would just return immediately and I think it's causing the hang when exiting a plugin. Also the write-buffer may slightly increase the battery runtime because of less disk spin ups.
Right, we already do this, but in a more powerful way than just a single buffer. The downside is we cant use it for plugins...
