From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: tog: basic diff regress
To: Mark Jamsek <mark@jamsek.com>
Cc: Game of Trees <gameoftrees@openbsd.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:23:52 +0200

On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 09:46:51PM +1000, Mark Jamsek wrote:
> The below diff (which applies on top of main) adds a new WAIT_FOR_UI
> instruction to the test harness, and a basic blame regress test that
> demonstrates its use.  When the instruction is received a flag is set,
> which delays processing further instructions till it is unset, which, in
> this case, is when the blame process is complete. This can easily be
> extrapolated to future cases that require waiting till the UI has been
> drawn.

Looks fine. ok

I would have expected pthread_cond_wait() to be involved while waiting.
This would require more than one WAIT-style instruction to identify
which condition the main thread should for.
I guess the way you implemented this we will essentially busy-loop
in the view input handlers until the variable is flipped by the other
thread? That is a bit less elegant than waiting via pthread APIs.
But of course if it works it can be good enough for tests. And in
any case it is better than sleeping for some fixed amount of time.