Re: Can you get asleep and be awakened?

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Maurizio,

That is an interesting philosophical problem. Can a person sleep in two 
places at the same time?

John

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Maurizio Colucci wrote:

> Hello, 
>
> I am developing this free file manager (see screenshots and
> download it at http://segusoland.sourceforge.net ! It is already working.) 
> with SWI-prolog and GTK+, and I need to schedule actions to be executed in 
> the future. For example, you could choose to shut down the computer at a 
> precise time. 
>
> I don't know where to start. I know that I need to register myself to some 
> kind of timer and get asleep. But where? I already get asleep waiting for a 
> GTK event... I cannot be sleeping in two places. So I guess GTK should 
> provide this kind of functionality (awaking you at a precidse time). Could 
> you please give me some hint, so we can all use my program :-) ? 
>
> Thank you.

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