Re: Infinite Loop with Glib::IO->add_watch()

["Mike Schilli" <m perlmeister com>]

A. Pagaltzis wrote on 9/8/2004, 1:28 AM:

> The Glib docs say that 'in' aka G_IO_IN means "There is data to
> read.", and since you're not reading any data in your callback,
> after the callback returns, there's still data to be read, and so
> it gets called again.

Gotcha. One other related question: In the examples, I somewhere found 
the notion

     Gtk2::Helper->add_watch(fileno(READHANDLE), 'in', \&callback);

instead of

     Glib::IO->add_watch(fileno(\*READHANDLE), 'in', \&callback);

Are these equivalent or do you prefer one or the other?

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Mike Schilli
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