what is the preferred way to wait while polling a flag

2012-05-17 Thread Rick Berger
In GTK+ 2.20, what is the preferred way to wait while polling a flag in shared memory every 25 milliseconds in code something like this? gint n; for( n=10; n (sharedMemory-flag != 1), n--) { /* wait 25 milliseconds */ } if( n == 0 ) { g_warning(Timed out while waiting for flag); return

Re: what is the preferred way to wait while polling a flag

2012-05-17 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
Ooops, forgot to CC the list: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Rick Berger rckb...@gmail.com wrote: In GTK+ 2.20, what is the preferred way to wait while polling a flag in shared memory every 25 milliseconds in code something like this? The preferred thing to do is to never use polling for