Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 02:57:56 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <3718C49C.85785ED6@camtech.net.au> References: <XFMail.990413142825.jdp@polstra.com>
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Whats the posibility of having another process for the display ? Naturally this would only be forked if the DISPLAY env is set and the user didnt refuse GUI mode. John Polstra wrote: > > 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 -- /=======================================================================\ | Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au | \=======================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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