José Matos wrote:
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:15:32 Richard Heck wrote:
May I file an enhancement at bugzilla? (I didn't find any dealing with
this)
Of course.
This subject has been discussed here before I would be surprised if this is
not on bugzilla, or at at least in the wiki.
Yes and at least two preliminary implementations exist:
- one from Peter K. using threads with possibly the shortcomings
described below by Richard.
- one from myself using the same forked controller as the one used for
graphics conversion.
This is not difficult to do, in a way, and it should perhaps be
configurable via a preference. The "threads" are provided by the OS: On
Linux, it just means running the system command with "&". The downside
is that, as the code is currently configured, you don't get the error
messages, since the command is launched and then we go on to whatever
else we are doing: There's no "it's done" signal....
Linux has support for threads, light weight processes, what you are
describing is a fork and different in this regard.
You might even be able to hack your way to this by defining the
converter using "&". It'd be worth trying.
AFAIR one proposed solution implied the use of boost support for threads.
This would hide the platform specific details.
That is the one from Peter I guess.
Abdel.
