Re: Usage of gtk_main_iteration_do ()

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

What are the chances that this will be the only process ? - in any regularlinux
 intallation we have more than 100 daemon running on the background anyhow.

Harring.
--- Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au> wrote:
> Russell Shaw wrote:
> > Harring Figueiredo wrote:
> >
> > >  If you need to do something based on time, why can't you use 
> > > g_timeout_add ?
> >
> >
> > I wanted only for the loop to run once every time slice of the linux 
> > scheduler.
> > I found the ideal function is sched_yield():
> >
> > while(!gtk_main_iteration_do(0)){  // non-blocking
> >   a_non_blocking_function();
> >   sched_yield();
> > }
>
> On second thoughts, the cpu would spin if this is the only process.
> Might be better to just sleep for 100ms.
>
> while(!gtk_main_iteration_do(0)){  // non-blocking
>    a_non_blocking_function();
>    poll(NULL,0,100);
> }
>
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