[Zope-dev] I won't be using ZDaemons heartbeat for ZScheduler

[Jordan B. Baker]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Martijn Pieters wrote:

> Two problems with using this:
> 
> 1) It prints a damn annoying 'tha-thump' every heartbeat. Fixable, I know.
> 
> 2) It only runs on Unix. ZDaemon is not used on NT (z2.py line 213: if 
> sys.platform=='win32': Zpid='')

#2: the cross platform issue could be avoided by using the timeout
ability of select() (which NT has, right?) and moving the heartbeat
implementation into this area of the code.

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