Gnome TCP front-end to app.

["Freivald, Joseph A, PROSH" <jfreivald att com>]

I'm working on a front-end that communicates with a process on another box over TCP.  The other box feeds 
status messages asynchronously to the front-end, and the front-end will send messages to the back-end 
processes when buttons are pressed, etc.

Sending messages based on user input is trivial because it can be embedded in the widget callbacks.  It only 
needs to be executed when the user makes a change.

What I need is a way to watch the TCP port and generate an event when a message is available.  I have 
considered making a separate thread that reads the message, checks it for validity, queues it and then 
generates an event (so that the entire app doesn't have to be re-entrant), but before I take that route, I 
wanted to ask for suggestions.

Anyone have any better ideas?

--JATF