Re: [Pan-devel] Big Pan code commit

[K. Haley]

Charles Kerr wrote:

> I've just checked in code to Pan that uses nonblocking communication 
> with the news server rather than the previous blocking, 
> one-thread-per-communication model.  As a result Pan is no longer a 
> threaded application ("threads" as in pthreads, not article 
> threading), so I was also able to remove about a thousand lines of 
> now-unnecessary pthread code.
>
> Removing pthreads is the big-hammer way to get rid of pthread bugs, so 
> this should make for a more intrinsically stable Pan once any new-code 
> bugs are stomped out.
>
> The new code's worked fine for me for the last week of testing under 
> normal use (setting up new accounts, fetching group lists, new 
> headers, reading articles, posting, and decoding binaries), so I've 
> checked it in for wider testing.  If anyone's interested, please give 
> it a spin from CVS.
I'll pull the thread related code out of the DB code I've written.  I 
think I can change the delayed db update to use timers instead of 
threads.  This might even simplify a few things for me.

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