A common VFS and a Common conf-system [Part II]

[Jamie McCracken]

Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 00:09 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> 
>>Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I think there is some misunderstanding here about the separation between 
>>>daemon and the backends. The question isn't so much about the daemon itself, 
>>>as well as how the backends run. Do the backends run in a process of 
>>>themselve, as separate thread in the daemon process or do they time-share the 
>>>main single thread of the daemon?
>>
>>Well considering some of the backends would probably be synchronous in 
>>nature (EG anything taht involves a lot of polling) then they would have 
>>to be threaded with the deamon being async in that case - is that right?
> 
> 
> I can't think of any situation where you have a network protocol that
> must be synchronous.

Synchronous FTP?

Anyway there are other elements like keeping connections alive by 
periodic polling and live views (aka file monitoring in gnome-vfs) which 
would also involve periodic polling/refreshing in things like FTP 
servers. Of course you could do that without threads but it would be 
quite messy codewise wouldn't it?


jamie.



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> 
>>jamie.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Waldo
>>>
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