OpenEuphoria

Threads vs Processes

• Posted by Bruce Douglas <bruce_list at tutopia.com.br> May 02, 2005
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Hello, I am new at Euphoria and am really happy with it. I have 2
projects in C++ which were stalled which I have ported to Euphoria
and have made a lot of progress now. I am using wxEuphoria
which is important for me because I work in Linux but deploy these
programs on Windows computers.  So, thank-you, Rob and Matt!

I have been following your debate on threads vs. processes with
great interest.  I hope this is not a dumb question. 

My question is how you implement processes? For example, I'm working
on an email checker / deleter and would like to be able to connect
simultaneously to several accounts. Also, I have times when the connection
freezes but doesn't disconnect and then my poor program gets trapped in the
socket call and never returns. I have a timer() call set up but the 
program is
not available to check the timer.

It would be nice if I could just call a procedure but not wait for it to 
finish.
When it was good and ready, it could generate an event or set a variable or
whatever. If it doesn't return in a certain time, I can have the program 
handle
this more gracefully.

I would like to avoid using the Windows API calls since I would like my
programs to still work in Linux.

Is there a way to implement this without threads?

Thanks in advance,
Bruce Douglas