-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Garrett wrote: > There are certain situations where polling is inevitable (such as > querying hardware for battery status or signal strength, pulling mail, > that kind of thing). For querying hardware there should be better ways. Have a centralized place where the information is poll and the broadcast changes. I though hal etc is supposed to do this. As for mail pulling: sure. But the frequency should be measured in minutes and not in micro-seconds. > Applications that do this should do it at > relatively low frequency, and where possible (ie, almost always) use > g_timeout_add_seconds or equivalent functionality. I assume this refers to the same thing Arjan tried to do: group wakeups of multiple waiters together. He can probably recall the details more easily than I can. - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh8tq0ACgkQ2ijCOnn/RHRF/QCfeGAbjuejLQl5MDhNQafy7edA coYAn0a3cULC+vdaYVRAZOEHMA2rnQ/d =rW6D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
