On 10/22/07, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> Trevor Talbot wrote:
> > I'd probably take the approach of combining win32_waitpid() and
> > threads. You'd end up with 1 thread per 64 backends; when something
> > interesting happens the thread could push the info onto a queue, which
> > the new win32_waitpid() would check. Use APCs to add new backends to
> > threads with free slots.
>
> I was planning to make it even easier and let Windows do the job for us,
> just using RegisterWaitForSingleObject(). Does the same - one thread per
> 64 backends, but we don't have to deal with the queueing ourselves.
Oh, good call -- I keep forgetting the native thread pool exists.