Re: letting a function timeout

[Thijs Assies <thijs_a gmx net>]

Emmanuel Saracco wrote:

> 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?
>
> bye
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I cant use this function because it remains in the the same line. If i 
use it, the function will be stopped when the downloading is complete ;)