From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-06-26T19:28:09+09:00
Subject: Re: speeding up Process.detach frequency

Hi,

In message "Re: speeding up Process.detach frequency"
    on Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:39:35 +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net writes:

|> |It seems like a bug of Process.detach.  After it received the
|> |termination, it unnecessarily waits for one second again.
|> 
|> Right.  But using rb_waitpid() withouth WNOHANG does busy-wait.
|
|It should check periodically once per 0.06sec in
|rb_thread_polling().

Isn't it too often for most of the cases?

|Or if it's not enough, a patch to use SIGCHLD.

I'm not sure if SIGCHLD is available on non-UNIX platforms.

							matz.