[Info-vax] Volatile, was: Re: yet another sys$qiow question

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <55e0994f$0$17002$b1db1813$2411a48f at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> And when discussing with people who deal in real time, they are all
>> adament that it must all be an event loop, no ASTs allowed. So while I
>> never had to do this, I think it is possible that some types of apps
>> might actually do need to poll the IOSB as part of their real time event
>> loop. (if it is more efficient than checking event flags).
> 
>    Did tons of ASTs in real-time.  Hard real-time.  I'd never want an
>    event loop.
> 
>    But I know a few who don't understand there systems and do want an
>    event loop.
> 

If that's the only thing going on then it should not be harmful.  But when I do 
a SHOW SYSTEM there seems to be some other tasks ....

Guess one size doesn't fit all ....

My question to all those who want to "do it themselves" is, why did the OS 
people bother to put in event notifications?