Re: [Gnash-commit] [SCM] Gnash branch, master, updated. release_0_8_9_start-289-g8be3911

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:29:51AM +0000, Bastiaan Jacques wrote:

> commit 8be39112887c704fb36f69a5a1896285760c4e06
> Author: Bastiaan Jacques <address@hidden>
> Date:   Fri Mar 18 04:11:35 2011 +0100
> 
>     Another attempt to prevent the plugin from blocking Firefox, seeing as
>     the previous solution did not work on OpenBSD (at least).
>     
>     This approach reads only a single byte at a time, and subsequently
>     checks that more input is flagged before attempting the next read.
>     This is tested to prevent blocking at least on OpenBSD and Fedora
>     with Firefox 3.x and 4.0rc1.

Do we have any more information about the blocking experience ?
Is it g_io_channel_read_chars blocking despite the flag or the loop
or G_IO_STATUS_AGAIN being received ?

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