Author: Edward Screven
Date: 13:33:38 07/10/98
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On July 07, 1998 at 17:48:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 07, 1998 at 13:19:21, Alessandro Damiani wrote: > >>With XBoard one can program pondering using interrupts (SIGINT). But WinBoard >>doesn't interrupt search... > >For unix/xboard, use select() ... For winboard, you need to use >PeekNamedPipe() instead... another way to read from WinBoard is to use a separate thread blocked on ReadFile(). it's more complex because you also have to arrange for safe shared data between the search and reader threads. but for me the net effort of threads was less, since the structure of my internal interfaces meant that i could port to win32 by replacing SIGIO and SIGALRM handlers with threads in an encapsulated way. - edward
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