Re: What happens with bluetooth when connection is interrupted

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Reto Bachmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I need to connect the D-Bus signal RemoteDeviceDisconnected to find out
> that I am not connected anymore?
>
> Why shouldn't I poll for a status? Is it just because a signal is sent
> either way or is the status i ask for not the true status?

Because polling is the worst strategy both CPU- and power-wise. It
causes frequent wakeups that waste power and prevent CPUs from
entering a deep idle state. They also generate unnecessary traffic for
the IPC mechanism so if every program decided to poll for something
once a second, services like DBus would likely get hosed.

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki

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