Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:28:25 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <XFMail.990413142825.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199904131923.VAA21668@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>
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Thomas Schuerger wrote: > cvsup is mostly based on disk (and network) I/O, so there shouldn't > be a problem with properly updating the GUI. Someone said it is > done in a separate process, so I still wonder why the GUI is updated > so slowly on my PII/450. Not a separate process -- a separate thread. It uses user-level threads. If the process blocks in a disk I/O call, all threads stop until the call completes. That's just the way Unix works. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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