Re: letting a function timeout

[Emmanuel Saracco <esaracco noos fr>]

On 20 Nov 2002 09:43:19 +0100
Juan Agüí <jagui die upm es> wrote:

> El mié, 20-11-2002 a las 00:30, Thijs Assies escribió:
> > Hi,
> > I am using gnome-vfs to get a file. And i want GTK/GLIB to stop the 
> > function when it takes too long. gnome-vfs doesnt have a function
> > like that. Does anyone knows how to do this.
>
> An idea:
>
> #define SECS (5) /* 5 seconds timeout */
> int timeout_id;
> int timeout_period=1000*SECS;
>
> timeout_func(gpointer data)
> {
> *data=TRUE;
> gtk_timeout_remove(timeout_id);
> }
>
>
>
> function_get_file()
> {
> int timeout_flag=0;
>
> timeout_id=gtk_timeout_add(timeout_period,timeout_func,(gpointer)&tim
> eout_flag); while(!tiemout_flag)
>       {
>               get_file_contents;
>               ...
>       }       
> }

I don't know gnome-vfs, but can't he define a SIGALRM for that sort of
job?

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