Re: Coding inside the debugger

From: Robert C. Martin (unclebob_at_objectmentor.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:53:55 -0500

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:17:47 +0100, "paul campbell"
<p.au.lc@objectvision.DOT.co.DOT.uk> wrote:

>I am presuming that FitnessClient needs to do "something" when the packet
>transfers associated with a "session" are complete and hence the reason
>you are trying to avoid its thread becomming blocked on the read where
>no more packets are left to transfer.

Yes.

>
>My approach would be to not worry about avoiding the blocking call e.g.
>
>while(received != sent)
>{
> readBlock();
> processBlock();
>}
>
>by having a dedicate thread for this loop.

The problem with this is that recieved==sent does not mean that the
session is over. Depending on the timing, sent can equal received for
brief periods in the midst of the session.

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