Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] main: switch qemu_set_fd_handler to g_io_add_watch

[Fabien Chouteau]

On 25/11/2011 16:48, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> There's a fundamental impedence mismatch between glib and
>>> slirp/iohandler.  Either you convert glib's pollfds to fd_sets, or
>>> you
>>> take slirp and iohandler's fd_sets and put them in pollfds.
>>> Converting slirp and iohandler to produce pollfds is not easy
>>> because
>>> Windows does not have poll---so you'd still have a pollfd-to-fd_set
>>> conversion somewhere.
>>
>> Is it possible to use both? Keep the select scheme for iohandlers and
>> slirp, but use g_main_context_iteration() for Glib stuff.
> 
> Perhaps with two threads, but I think it's more complicated than
> merging the handle/fd sets and doing a single poll.

Why two threads?

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Fabien Chouteau