On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 12:52 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: > In historic types in ORBit2 / linc - we had a custom GSource (which > IMHO is well worth stealing), for which we could strobe the poll > conditions easily [ though perhaps in glib that is easier anyway ]. > > Thus - when we hit an EAGAIN on write, we would immediately switch our > poll to wait until there is space on the socket buffer (G_IO_OUT), and > get on with processing any other data / backlog and/or sleep.
Note that gmain wasn't designed for this, and it was a source of mysterious crashers throughout gnome until someone smart tracked it down a couple of years ago. GLib is robust against it now, though. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523463 - Owen _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
