Re: [gtk-list] GIOChannel

[David Benson <daveb idealab com>]

giochannel is not extremely useful, but it could be...
wouldn't you rather have your code operate on generic
streams rather that file descriptors?
	1.  it'll make porting your app to windows easier
	2.  it'd be theoretically possible to use a different
	    transport layer (eg SSL)

The event model is critical for writing a gui which doesn't lock
up on all net requests.  I found it helpful enough that I've 
used it in at least one non-gui program -- my sound server, gdam.

- Dave


> Has anyone done any serious work using said glib type?
> 
> I've been playing with it and have noticed 0% code saving and the callback
> model doesn't seem to be very usefull for determining things like
> diconnections,timeouts.... Since when is read/write not portable?
> 
> Any thoughts or rebuttals or pointers....?
> 
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