RE: resetting timeout source

[Juan Pablo L. <jpablolorenzetti hotmail com>]

thank you very much! very useful!!

> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 22:48:26 +0100
> From: jardasmid gmail com
> To: jpablolorenzetti hotmail com
> CC: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: resetting timeout source
>
> 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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