Re: Infinite polling loop

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 11:10:38AM -0500, Bryan Christ wrote:
> Thomas, the observation was on another application... VWM (which uses
> libvterm).  I also observed this problem does not happen with Eterm or
> xterm.

The spinning is in libviper, where it attempts to read keys.
During libviper's initialization, it calls

        nodelay(SCREEN_WINDOW, TRUE);

which tells it to not wait if there's no data.  It then switches over
to the other protothread.

Changing that to a very small timeout (1 millisecond) gets rid of the
problem:

        wtimeout(SCREEN_WINDOW, 1);

You wouldn't notice the problem on the Linux console, because 
viper_kmio_fetch checks for data from GPM (which doesn't return
immediately).
 
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2018, 9:00 AM Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:27:50PM -0500, Bryan Christ wrote:
> > > I recently encountered a bizarre problem with a polling loop on Xubuntu
> > > 18.04.  When I run my application on a standard tty, it runs fine.  When I
> > > run it in xfce4-terminal the screen is completely blank.  When I strace 
> > > the
> > > application, it's running in an vigorous polling loop.  When I run the
> > > application on 16.04 there are no problems at all on a standard tty nor on
> > > xfce4-terminal.  On Xubuntu 18.04 ncurses = 6.1 (20180127).  I also get 
> > > the
> > > exact same behavior when I try to run in rxvt.
> >
> > hmm - I compiled
> >         https://github.com/TragicWarrior/libvterm
> >
> > using Ubuntu 18.04 and don't see a problem (xfce4-terminal 0.8.7.3).
> > The vshell program works, and top shows a low load factor.

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