Re: [Boost-users] Boost MSM - Ways to send info out from state machine to outside world

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost MSM - Ways to send info out from state machine to outside world
From: gauravk (gaurav_kulkarni_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-09 16:43:05

Christophe Henry-3 wrote:
> 
> 
>> 2. Have following transition:
>>  Row < state_waiting, none, state_waiting, none, Gc_always_false>
>> where guard condition Gc_always_false returns false, prohibiting the
>> transition but still keeping the state machine alive.
>>
>> Can you please tell me if the 2nd option is correct and if there is a 
>> better
>> way to sit idle in one state and keep the machine alive.
> 
> If you want to keep your processor busy, sure, but I won't recommend it
> ;-)
> Seriously, a state machine is event-triggered and does nothing until a
> next 
> event is fired. It's a purely reactive system.
> What are you trying to achieve?
> 

I was under the impression that if the FSM runs out of events it dies and so
one needs to keep feeding it events (be it none()) to keep the machine
alive. In my case, I can think of at least two scenarios where my machine
will be sitting idle: 1. While setting up connection, till it gets response
from the remote device 2.After sending its share of data, till it receives
new lot from the controller. Since I was under the impression that I have to
keep calling an event to keep the machine alive, I was looking for a
mechanism that will let me call an event but /not/ change the state and
/not/ keep reentering the same state again and again, causing seg fault. 
>From what you are saying, I will assume that if the state machine enters
waiting state (or any other state for that matter) and no event occurs, it
will stay in the same state forever. Also, I will assume that the state
machine will die whenever it goes out of scope (if its a stack variable) or
is explicitly deleted (if created on heap). 

Christophe Henry-3 wrote:
> 
> True, there are state machine libraries running constantly in a thread,
> but this eats your 
> cycles faster than a wolf a herd of sheeps and causes more race conditions 
> than the upcoming Oktoberfest will produce drunken tourists sleeping on
> the 
> pavement on my way home ;-)
> 
Btw those analogies were hilarious! 

Thanks for the help! 

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