Re: resetting timeout source

[Jaroslav Šmíd <jardasmid gmail com>]

Well, I cannot find anything in glib. If you use linux, you can use 
timerfd_create() to create pollable timer, create new GSource, attach 
the descriptor and you got your timer. Set intervals to zero to stop it, 
descriptor will get no more read events, and you don't even need to 
detach the source from event loop. You can 'reset' the timer without 
stopping it first.

On 12/25/2010 12:48 AM, Juan Pablo L. wrote:
> Hi, i m making an application which needs to perform a small task evey X secs, it will disconnect from a server if X seconds have passed without the aplication sending anything to the server, but if before completing the X secs i send something to the server i have to reset the timer for another X secs and so on like that all the time .... but my problem is that i can not find a way of resetting the timer without destroying and recreating the time again and again and again ..... which i find it too much for just the small task of resetting the timer, in other words i do not want to be freeing and getting new memory all the time i find that to be very inefficient and there should not be any need for it, so is there anyway to reset the timer without releasing its memory and getting memory all the time ? i know that if the callback function returns FALSE the source will not be added in the loop again so i guess i can just attach it again but that will only work when the timer 
ex
>   pires so that will not help when the timer has not yet expired and i need to reset it for another  X secs. 
> So should know that i m attaching the timer to a non default main loop (it is a main loop inside a thread). 
> any ideas will be very helpful. thanks!!!
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