Re: async file i/o

[Michael Rothwell <rothwell holly-springs nc us>]

David Helder wrote:

> 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().

I just wrote a small program using glade to read a file from a floppy in
4096 byte chunks, using O_NONBLOCK and GIOChannel. It blocks. :(

-M