Re: [Pan-devel] g_message function calls

[robert mcdonald]

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

--- Guilhem Bonnefille <address@hidden>
wrote:

> 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?
> -- 
> Guilhem BONNEFILLE
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