Re: GTK + winsock

[Aron Rubin <aron rubin lmco com>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> gdk_input_add expects a file descriptor
>> however as far as I know winsock has
>> socket descriptors which are some how
>> different to file descriptors in the Unix and Linux
>> world?
> 
> Indeed. You need to go a bit lower, there is g_io_channel_unix_new()
> for Unix file descriptors, and then correspondingly for Windows, for
> sockets in particular, g_io_channel_win32_new_socket(). Be aware
> though that there are many ways in which the behaviour of watches on
> GIOChannels for sockets differ between Unix and Windows.
> Unfortunately. Experiment!

However winsock sockets are a lot closer to unix than file handling.
i.e. select() only works in winsock.

Aron

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