Re: [Evolution-hackers] Two issues with libsoup head

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 06:30, Sean Gao wrote:
>     2. Another problem is that we still meet many defuct processes on a 
> Solaris8+Gnome2 platform with current libsoup head. It seems that 
> soup_ssl.c: soup_ssl_hup_waitpid() is not called at all (we set the 
> breakpoint in this function, but it does not stop here). It seems not 
> receiving G_IO_HUP, G_IO_ERR nor G_IO_NVAL at all.   This does not 
> happen on Linux,  so I doubt that this is an issue with G_IO_  signals 
> implementation differences on Solaris/Linux, But I am not very clear 
> about this. There are many experts there, can you give some idea, :)?

If one end of a pipe gets closed properly, do you get a G_IO_IN poll
condition with 0 bytes?  If so, it may need to check for that
condition.  That's how it works with sockets.

Joe