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Any Way to Force an Idle Handler System Call? (Redux)
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Any Way to Force an Idle Handler System Call? (Redux)


  • Subject: Any Way to Force an Idle Handler System Call? (Redux)
  • From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:56:13 -0400

My original question was:

   "I have a stay-open application with an idle handler set to be called every "x" seconds.  I would like to be able to change the period to another value before the current period ends.  I can call the idle hander from another script but it doesn't reset the system's next call."

The consensus answer of this list was "No".

A corollary of this appears to be that there is no way to quit the idle handler before the next cycle.  If I tell the app to quit from another script it appears to execute the quit handler but then the system resurrects it like a zombie :(  It also seems to me that even executing "quit" from within the idle handler takes until the next cycle to quit.

I hope I am wrong .  Comments?

Steve Cunningham
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