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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2003-12-31 05:45:16 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2003-12-31 05:45:16 +0000
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-rw-r--r--include/llvm/Support/SlowOperationInformer.h19
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/llvm/Support/SlowOperationInformer.h b/include/llvm/Support/SlowOperationInformer.h
index f27a055..75c5796 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Support/SlowOperationInformer.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Support/SlowOperationInformer.h
@@ -8,14 +8,13 @@
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This file defines a simple object which can be used to let the user know what
-// is going on when a slow operation is happening,l and gives them the ability
-// to cancel it. Potentially slow operations can stack allocate one of these
+// is going on when a slow operation is happening, and gives them the ability to
+// cancel it. Potentially slow operations can stack allocate one of these
// objects, and periodically call the "progress" method to update the progress
-// bar. If the operation takes more than 3 seconds to complete, the progress
-// bar is automatically shown and updated every second. As such, the slow
-// operation should not print stuff to the screen, and should not be confused if
-// an extra line appears on the screen (ie, the cursor should be at the start of
-// the line).
+// bar. If the operation takes more than 1 second to complete, the progress bar
+// is automatically shown and updated. As such, the slow operation should not
+// print stuff to the screen, and should not be confused if an extra line
+// appears on the screen (ie, the cursor should be at the start of the line).
//
// If the user presses CTRL-C during the operation, the next invocation of the
// progress method with throw an std::string object indicating that the
@@ -23,9 +22,9 @@
// the progress method.
//
// Because SlowOperationInformers fiddle around with signals, they cannot be
-// nested. The SIGINT signal handler is restored after the
-// SlowOperationInformer is destroyed, but the SIGALRM handlers is set back to
-// the default.
+// nested, and interact poorly with threads. The SIGALRM handler is set back to
+// SIGDFL, but the SIGINT signal handler is restored when the
+// SlowOperationInformer is destroyed.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//