[openbeos] Re: Kernel/app_server req #768 - suspend/resume
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 01:14:18 +0200 (MEST)
It's not safe for a user with no knowledge of the application to halt an
arbitrary thread like this. Usually this results in crash, or app_server
closing the application as it doesn't respond.
Anyway this is GE topic, please move on.
En réponse à Zenja Solaja <solaja@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Great!!! Do you think that users would like an easy method (without
> ProcessController or Slayer) to toggle the threads state? Something
> like a
> green/yellow button along the title bar of every window. One click
> suspend
> - one click resume. Well, its no longer a kernel team issue, but the
> app_server team issue. DarkWyrm?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: François Revol [SMTP:revol@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:45 AM
> > To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Zenja Solaja
> > Cc: glasselevator@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [openbeos] Kernel/app_server req #768 - suspend/resume
> >
> > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ hgrep suspend_thread
> > /boot/develop/headers/be/kernel/OS.h:extern _IMPEXP_ROOT status_t
> > suspend_thread(thread_id thread);
> > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ hgrep resume_thread
> > /boot/develop/headers/be/kernel/OS.h:extern _IMPEXP_ROOT status_t
> > resume_thread(thread_id thread);
> >
> > didn't know your BeOS could do this hmm ? ;)
> >
> > Anyway it's not to the OS to decide if the user can interrupt a
> > thread/team
> > it's the team itself which should provide a "pause rendering" button
> or
> > whatever that lets the user control the flow.
> > And there is Processcontroller :P
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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