GLib Main event loop with IOChannel and order of events? cross-post gtk-list (no answer)

[Sune Ahlgren <sune_ahlgren hotmail com>]

Hi,
 
I'm writing a UDP server where I set up 1 socket for multicast messages(SOCKET A) and 1 for the wildcard 
address ANY(SOCKET B). These sockets are monitored as IOChannels and added to the main event loop. 
 
Problem
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In case of receiving a single multicast message I get 1 event on SOCKET A and 1 event on SOCKET B. This is 
expected, but now I want to make sure that the events for SOCKET A is always handled before events SOCKET B. 
The reason I don't want to use the event priority feature is that I'm concerned with starvation of low 
priority events.
 
Observation
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I have observed that the order of adding the IOChannels watches (SOCKET A/B) to the Main loop affects the 
order of their handling. If I add the SOCKET A event to the Main event loop before I add the SOCKET B event, 
SOCKET A events are always handled first which is the behavior I want.
 
Question
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1) Can this observed behavior be trusted or is it just a fluke?
2) Is my starvation concern unfounded?
3) Is there any other way to achieve what I want?
 
Thanks for your insights
 
BRs
/Sune
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