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Re: non-blocking reads/writes and event loops
- To: cgf at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: non-blocking reads/writes and event loops
- From: Nick Duffek <nsd at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:21:26 -0400
- CC: ac131313 at cygnus dot com, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000619112314.G14829@cygnus.com>
On 19-Jun-2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:01:08PM +1000, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>Consider a GDBng (GDB 6) that is trying to talk to two (or more) active
>>remote targets.
>I was thinking more of a process hive which communicated via shared
>memory.
Or via a pipe or socket, the point (for me) being that multiple processes
-- one per target plus one for the user interface -- give us all the
non-blocking parallelism we need.
At least, I haven't yet come up with a scenario where that's not the case;
has anyone else?
>As far as NFS is concerned, I think that Nick was talking about the
>noticeable lags that can occur when loading something like a core file
>over NFS.
Right. Isn't getting rid of temporary GUI freezes one of the whole points
of event-loopification?
Nick