Re: Proper way to provide gtk+ app with asynchronous data?

[Christer Palm <palm nogui se>]

John Cupitt wrote:
> Very simple and easy to program. I'm assuming writing 4 bytes to a
> pipe is atomic, I guess. I've not had problems (even on SMP machines),
> but it would be easy to add a global mutex for the pipe writers.

Oh, by the way. On a POSIX conformant system, a write to a pipe _is_ 
guaranteed to be atomic as long as it's no larger than PIPE_BUF (from 
limits.h) bytes. So 4 bytes should be safe.

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Christer Palm