RE: [gtk-list] Re: GTK and network socket programming

[Tony Gale <gale daedalus dera gov uk>]

On 21-Mar-98 Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Could this be put into the FAQ?  This is a pretty important
> snippit, one
> that I had wondered about myself... :)

There's a whole section on this in the Tutorial:

15. Timeouts, IO and Idle Functions

You do have to make your sockets non-blocking and handle the
resulting complications if you don't want your interface to freeze.

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