Backgroundrb devel - Jan 2008 - worker and sleep

Hi Hermant,

I have seen some earlier messages in the list where you warned people  
never to use sleep() in workers. However, currently I have a need for  
a worker to issue a command to an external host and then keep  
checking that external host for a status change. Other than sleep,  
what else can be used to make a worker wait some time (say 1 second)  
between checks?

cheers,
mengkuan

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Meng Kuan <mengkuan at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Hermant,
>
>  I have seen some earlier messages in the list where you warned people
>  never to use sleep() in workers. However, currently I have a need for
>  a worker to issue a command to an external host and then keep
>  checking that external host for a status change. Other than sleep,
>  what else can be used to make a worker wait some time (say 1 second)
>  between checks?
add_periodic_timer(1) { check_status_change }



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