Re: [Texmacs-dev] what is texmacs constantly doing ?

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:47:46PM +0100, slept wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently looked at the output of strace and I get
> 
> ....
> ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> gettimeofday({1205790064, 238625}, NULL) = 0
> ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
> ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
> gettimeofday({1205790064, 250624}, NULL) = 0
> ....
> 
> I get at least 100 lines a minute. Can someone explain me what that is 
> and if it is supposed to be that way ?

TeXmacs uses a loop to listen to extern events.
When you don't use TeXmacs for a while,
the frequence is dropped down a little bit.

Best wishes, Joris