Re: socket question

[John Vetterli <jvetterli linux ca>]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Chris Cole wrote:
> hello all, i'm developing a client side gui whose main task is to
> process data coming from a remote server. no matter how i try to get
> around it (threads, queues, etc), gtk always hangs whenever i do a
> call socketFoo.recv(). i know there has to be someone out there who
> can help me with this....

Have you tried wrapping a GIOChannel around the socket file descriptor, then 
creating a watch?

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-IO-Channels.html

JV