Re: timeout

[Paul Davis <pbd op net>]

>Threads may sound like a good solution to this kind of problem, but in
>reality it can get complicated, especially if you want to be able to
>cancel the process, and even if you do get it right, your
>application's responsiveness may still be disappointing since threads,
>at least on Linux, are not fairly scheduled. This means that the

actually, the "problem" is that they *are* fairly scheduled.

>thread that runs the main loop can be starved by a worker thread, in

its starved only in the sense that you, the user, want the main loop
to have higher priority. this can easily be fixed by the programmer.

--p