Re: Proposal: asyncronous backends

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 13:23 +0000, dave wrote:

> While looking at ways to get weather info via a webservice, I noticed
> that while a backend is busy (e.g. waiting for a webservice reply), the
> dashboard remains locked up. This really sucks.

The backends' processing function happens in a separate thread, and the
results should be added as the backends return.  If that's not the case,
there's probably a locking bug in there.

Joe