Subj : Re: How to manage time-slicing in Pthreads programs?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Sun Feb 20 2005 11:52 am


"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl> wrote in message 
news:87vf8njiwo.fsf@qrnik.zagroda...

> Which require checking them in regular intervals. Most Unix programs
> don't have a GUI. I'm glad that they can be promptly interupted
> without the programmer having to remember to spread checks for an
> event queue over the program.

    Obviously, you need a way to interrupt a broken program in a very harsh 
way. But for normal termination, the program has to process the shutdown 
request politely anyway. Allowing ^C to have its default behavior of 
terminating the program ungracefully is adequate in only trivial programs.

    DS

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