Re: Gnome VFS - plans for Gnome 2.8

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 05:12, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 05:19, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > Some stuff that I'd like to see done:
> 
> [...]
> 
> I'd like to add one thing to this list - a way to open a file async, but
> later do sync reads.  I specifically want this for Rhythmbox, so that we
> can open a radio station asynchronously, and then pass the handle to
> gnomevfssrc inside GStreamer so it can do synchronous reads.  This way
> Rythmbox won't hang until TCP timeout on sites that are down.
> 
> GnomeVFS already sort-of supports this with
> gnome_vfs_async_open_as_channel, but I don't want a GIOChannel, I want a
> GnomeVFSHandle :)

I believe it should be possible to write a
convert_async_handle_to_handle, but you can't use the async handle any
more after that.

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