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Re: Question for Cliff?
>>>>> "William" == William Gnichtel <WangFU@msn.com> writes:
In article <000120b2+0000010e@msn.com> WangFU@msn.com (William Gnichtel) writes:
William> Cliff, a while back in a phone conversation I had with
William> you, you mentioned system 7 spoofing for exec2. I am
William> wondering will you be implimenting thread managment or
William> the ability to load an external thread manager (as an
William> extention) as well as the ability to load other
William> extentions? Thread managment seems to be a hanging point
William> for executor... most apps that do not require the thread
William> manager seem to work to the point that I can get them to
William> come up. How hard would it be add thread managment? How
William> far are you planning on taking this sys7 "spoofing"?
"Spoofing" means to pretend like a given task is being done when asked
to do it, but not really doing it. That works for things like sound,
where the application will say "play this sound" and Executor can just
tell the application "done -- it's played" even without making any
noise. The application will be happy and never know that it's been
spoofed.
You can't spoof the thread manager, because of the way applications
use it. They're going to say "start up this new thread" and expect
the thread to actually get started. It's not sufficient to say "OK,
that thread is started" when it's not.
Most likely thread manager support won't occur in the next six months.
William> -Thanx
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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