Re: [gnet] Win32 async iochannels

[Aron Rubin <aron rubin lmco com>]

Was any progress made over the weekend?

P.S. we are having email trouble here so I will check the web archive 
for a response.

Andrewlanoix aol com wrote:
> I am able to replicate Adam’s problem here but I am seeing other problems. My second client never gets any data and the first client sometimes segfualts.
>
> I am also able to replicate Martyn problem with echoclient.exe --async <port number>.
>
> Both problems are going to be related to glib’s iochannel code in giowin32.c. I spent months debugging this back in 2001 to get echoclient.exe --async <port number> working. There have been changes since then apparently with how the thread synchronization code works.
>
> Tor and I implemented socket iochannels to each have a thread and in that thread we do a blocking select() on the socket. When we get activity you should get a callback from the main loop using g_io_win32_dispatch(). Take a look at select_thread(), g_io_win32_sock_read() and g_io_win32_sock_write() in giowin32.c. 
>
> Unfortunately I won’t be able to start debugging on these issues until Saturday at the earliest. 
>
> Andy Lanoix
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