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by F-W-M 973 days ago
What do you mean by a long polling state machine? Is it just a state machine that gets fed via long polling http requests?
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akvadrako 973 days ago
No, he means a run loop which polls for events, often by using poll() or select(), but it could also just be sleep() and then a SELECT statement.

Then it contains logic to handle events.

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F-W-M 973 days ago
Ah thanks. Didn't hear 'long polling' in that context yet.
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