On Wednesday 17 August 2005 04:04 pm, Scott Long wrote: > >>I do think that taskqueue_stop() is a muddying of the API. If anyone > >>else has a comment on this (BDE?) I would be very interested to hear it. > > > > *shrug* It's already confusing in that callout_drain() does both a stop > > and then wait kind of like pthread_cancel() whereas taskqueue_drain() > > just waits until the task has run and finished without trying to cancel > > it like pthread_join(). I'd actually probably be inclined to rename > > callout_drain() to something else if we wanted to resolve that specific > > instance of confusion personally. > > True, consistency would be nice =-) Would you rather change > taskqueue_drain() to be more like callout_drain()? I don't think so. It can be useful to fire off an async event and then wait for it to complete when you still definitely want it to run. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Wed Aug 17 2005 - 18:20:50 UTC
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