Re: async file i/o

[David Helder <dhelder umich edu>]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> David Helder wrote:
> > You can open the file non-blocking and then use IOChannels.
>
> Do you have an example? As far as I can tell, O_NONBLOCK does nothing.
> read() and write() block anyway.

O_NONBLOCK should work.  E.g.:
  state->fd = open (state->pathname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);

Then you can use select() or create an IOChannel from the file handle and 
use g_io_channel_add_watch().

David



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