From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32298 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2010 21:43:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 32288 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jul 2010 21:43:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:43:16 +0000 Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6ULh2TW006338 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:43:02 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6ULh11o018277; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:43:01 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6ULh0uK024290; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:43:00 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1DC143792BD; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:43:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Phil Muldoon , gdb-patches ml Subject: Re: [patch] Implement post_event for Python scripts. References: <4C45F0B0.5000903@redhat.com> <20100727162956.GG13267@adacore.com> <4C503BFE.8090608@redhat.com> <20100728173128.GM13267@adacore.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:43:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20100728173128.GM13267@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:31:28 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-07/txt/msg00595.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker writes: >> Providing an example of a multi-threaded python script using >> post_event would be too complex for the manual (I'm not sure that was >> what you wanted anyway). I provided a small example that shows usage. >> Is this okay? Joel> I'm just trying to figure out how this feature can be useful, and Joel> in particular when the callbacks are triggered. Perhaps, rather than Joel> an example, what we need is a section that describes the event loop Joel> and when it is queried. For the purposes of post_event, I think it is probably sufficient to say that the callback will be executed in the main thread "sometime". I don't think we can really provide anything more concrete than that anyhow. Tom