CGI Hung Process Help!

Sivakatirswami katir at hindu.org
Tue May 8 23:08:51 EDT 2007


Dave Cragg wrote:
> 
> On 8 May 2007, at 11:27, Sivakatirswami wrote:
> 
> 
>>>  repeat while sDataRead = false
>>>     wait for messages
>>>   end repeat
>>
>> ## skts: I don't understand "wait for messages" what does that do?
> 
> The above three lines are the equivalent of this:
> 
>      wait until sDataRead is not false with messages
> 
> I heard that the "wait for messages" form was less resource intensive 
> because the condition was checked less often. But some limited testing 
> showed no great difference.


What confuses me is that I thought "wait" was a blocker, but
this is news to me:  you can have a "wait" handler
but  if you have previously initiated a "send in" loop, those
continue on, even if a "wait" has been set elsewhere.

Sivakatirswami



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