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- Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 08:05:32 +0200
- From: Christian Lynbech <lynbech@daimi.aau.dk>
- Message-Id: <199405260605.AA20385@avignon.daimi.aau.dk>
- To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au
- In-Reply-To: <9405260005.AA29735@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> (message from Warwick Allison on Thu, 26 May 1994 10:05:37 +1000)
- Subject: Re: GEMDOS re-entrancy
- Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v3.12P.
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- >>>>> "Warwick" == Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au> writes:
-
- Warwick> ekl@sdf.lonestar.org (Evan K. Langlois):
- >> Question, why AES and VDI? Well, they are the same trap for one.
- >> And I thought the calls were executed in supervisor mode so that
- >> they couldn't be re-entered anyway. And isn't the VDI re-entrant?
- >> Hmm .. maybe not since you can't call the AES from a G_USERDEF
- >> object.
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- Warwick> WHICH VDI? NVDI and Nova VDI spring to mind, and the
- Warwick> Cybercube boards' VDI.
-
- Warwick> To me, the question really is, why would you want AES and VDI
- Warwick> to be reentrant?
-
- Warwick> X11 doesn't draw anything in parallel.
-
- There is one snag, when talking about GEM (that is AES and VDI). If
- GEM is not reentrant, one process should block GEM while executing a
- GEM function. That is no problem for graphics, it takes the time it
- takes anyway, but dont forget the event loop. The typical GEM program
- will call an event_something and block GEM for a very long time!
-
- Reentrancy is one solution, another would be to have some server
- thingy, such that GEM thinks there is only two GEM programs in the
- system (I remember having seen that AES is reentrant to three levels),
- one of which never calls event_anything. Then clients (!) could send
- request to the server which would use GEM messages to forward it to a
- dispatcher process, which would otherwise be suspended in GEM waiting
- for the union of all requested events (plus the server messages of
- course), shipping back events to the server whenever one occurred.
-
- A pretty complicated alternative to MultiAES, but should be a workable
- solution. One could even start enhancing things as all calls goes
- through a server, adding things like X style keyboard handling,
- network support etc.
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