[Info-vax] MQ on Alpha ?

[Joseph Huber]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:

> Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:

snip [...]

>  > Besides the basic GET you can also program INQuires to peek ahead in
>  > the queue and fun stuff like that.
>  >
>  > What you do NOT want to do is a classic poll where you try a GET and
>  > go to sleep for a while if nothing found, to retry later.
> 
> Agree... :-)
> 
> Very good input. Thanks !

Not using MQ myself, but in general if a facility offers only a polling
method:
Use pthread to do the polling in a parallel thread, and use VMS sys$dclast
when a message arrives.

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