RE: Frontend for a distributed IP multicast program

["Chris Jones" <chris black-sun co uk>]

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Hi

> the signal handling function; the net effect being that the program
would
> thus check the socket once per second.)

If you read the socket with a non-blocking read, you could use
gtk_timeout_add() to have the gtk_main() loop run a specific callback
once a second (if, however, you use a blocking read and there is no
data waiting you will probably lock up the GUI until some data
appears).

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