From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-28T04:52:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading and Deadlock

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Jordan McKible wrote:

> Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
>> On 9/27/06, Jordan McKible <jmckible@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> nonrelevant parts.
>> I'm seeing multiple problems in this code. #fill and #crawl don't appear
>> to
>> have loops.
>
> ah, the loop, of course! The fill and crawl should be wrapped in loop do
> {}, correct?
>
>
>> #fill contains a statement that can sleep for multiple
>> minutes
>> holding a mutex lock, but fortunately appears not to be reachable.
>
> This is by design - in order to not be constantly retrieving feeds (that
> seems a little exessive for a feed reader) I want to have a break
> between refills

even if true - consider that you are effectively re-writing Queue to
accomplish your task.  using the built-in Queue class will greatly simply your
goal.

fyi.

-a
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