Re: [Pan-devel] [PATCH] Downloading headers from the command line

[Calin A. Culianu]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Eric Lauriault wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
>         I've attached a small patch to download headers from the command line.
> I've wanted to do this to download headers for a few groups
> automatically without a gui while I'm away using crond. It's pretty much
> the same idea as using pan as an nzb reader. The problem I'm
> experiencing is that when the queue empties, the process just hangs
> around until it gets receives a signal. The same behavior can be
> observed while downloading using an nzb file from the command line. Is
> this expected?
>
> Eric

Yeah that's due to the fact that the g_main_loop() is still running.

The only way to really solve this is to create a class that implements 
Queue::Listener and when it receives the on_queue_task_removed() event, to 
query the queue and see if it's empty.  If it is, it should call 
g_main_loop_quit().

I can go ahead and modify your patch to do that, but I am not sure what 
the consensus is about this feature (you may want to ask Charles if he 
agrees with the approach I outlined above?).

-Calin