Re: [Pan-devel] g_message function calls

[Guilhem Bonnefille]

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?
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Guilhem BONNEFILLE
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