Re: polling sockets using glib

[Peter Robinson <pjr itee uq edu au>]

tomas tuxteam de wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:20:59AM +1000, Peter Robinson wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > I am writing a server application (using glib) in which I want to be 
> > able to (frequently) turn polling on and off for given sockets.
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> > I am currently using g_io_add_watch to add a watch on a socket and 
> > g_source_remove to remove the watch. This seems like an expensive way of 
> > doing what I want. What is the recommended way of doing this?
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> This is what I'm doing too. Although it doesn't seem to add much
> overhead in my case, I'd have preferred to have a "switch off" and
> "switch on" a source without throwing away all data structures. May
> be this could be a feature request? What do folks think?
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This is exactly what I was thinking :) - being able to toggle seems like 
a very good idea to me.

Peter