Duplicate simultaneous calls to same handler
Mark Wieder
mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Fri Jan 23 00:45:41 EST 2015
Jacque-
Thursday, January 22, 2015, 7:26:16 PM, you wrote:
> Does the engine queue the second call until the long handler finishes,
Every "wait with messages" call will yield time to the system to allow
other tasks to continue.
> and then send the message from the second call (serial responses)?
> Or does the engine run two instances of the long handler simultaneously?
> If so, what happens to the values of the variables?
Google idempotent.
> Or something else?
> I've never allowed this to happen before but I find myself in a position
> where simultaneous calls would be the best way to handle things.
Well, you won't get simultaneous without threading, but yielding to
messages is as close as we're gonna get.
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-Mark Wieder
ahsoftware at gmail.com
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