Re: Notes when applying IO channel patch

[Ron Steinke <rsteinke w-link net>]

> From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
>
> Ron Steinke <rsteinke w-link net> writes:
>
> > > From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
> > >
> > > By "internally", I mean simply mean that it isn't handled
> > > as an error, but as a separate status "GIOStatusAgain".
> > 
> > This reminds me: We can get rid of G_IO_STATUS_INTR in the
> > interface, but we still need to use it internally for
> > backwards compatibility. On EINTR, we want the new interface to
> > handle the condition, but the old interface still
> > needs to return G_IO_ERROR_AGAIN.
>
> No need - GLib-1.2 just returned G_IO_ERROR_UNKNOWN in this case 
> instead of anything useful.

Thanks. I was looking at the earlier 1.3 code, where it did get
returned as G_IO_ERROR_AGAIN for a while.

Ron