Re: [libmicrohttpd] threading model question

[Christian Grothoff]

On 10/28/2011 10:49 PM, Sven Geggus wrote:
> Christian Grothoff schrieb am Freitag, den 28. Oktober um 15:01 Uhr:
>
> > Well, that's technically not required.  You can simply integrate your data-
> > polling loop into the external select loop of MHD and in the response
> > callbacks for data-aquisition return 0 (which will be interpreted as "no data
> > available yet, try again in the next round of select").  Note that MHD will
> > then NOT put the respective sockets into your write set, so you would not end
> > up busy-waiting.
>
> Hm, looks like I do not fully understand this suggestion :(
>
> Attached is a modified version fo your fileserver_example_external_select.c
> example.
>
> I just added a (fake) data acquisition loop which is currently using a 4
> second interval.  But how can I synchronice the http output for the
> http data requests via http (and only for these) now?
>
> Sven

I've attached a completed example that writes every 4s a "Round %d" 
string to the client (based on the trigger).  I've added comments where 
appropriate.

Happy hacking,

Christian

fileserver_example_external_select.c
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