Re: [Pan-devel] g_message function calls

[Charles Kerr]

I opened a ticket for this at 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372013
with some links to mingw-friendly implementations
of nonblocking connections, but I'm pretty busy.

If someone wants to make a patch, though, I'd be happy
to accept it.

Charles


robert mcdonald wrote:
> You're correct. And the windows variant of the code is
> extremely similar (trivial differences) and works
> equally well. 

> > On 11/6/06, Charles Kerr <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > The socket creation code is a special case there
> > -- it's the /only/
> > > part of Pan that uses threads, and it's a very
> > small task.  The
> > > purpose here is to make a connection in a
> > nonblocking way so that
> > > Pan doesn't freeze while connecting.
> > Humh... As I remember, it is possible to make a
> > socket connection
> > non-blocking without using threads. I have done such
> > thing with select
> > (or poll). The algo: create the socket and connect
> > it (O_NONBLOCK),
> > then register the file descriptor in select (poll)
> > and then, when
> > something occurs, it is probably a connection
> > success (or failure).
> > Look at
> http://www.developerweb.net/forum/showthread.php?p=13486
> > Perhaps it could be interesting to rewrite the
> > "connection" part, so
> > pan will be fully thread safe (which is more simpler
> > and safer than
> > multi-thread). I'm quite sure that such asynchronous
> > connection could
> > be made with the GLIB "event loop".
> >
> > What's your opinion? Do you already try such
> > asynchronous connection?