Re: [gtkmm] I/O Connection::disconnect() doesn't work as expected.

[MHL Schulze t-online de (Martin Schulze)]

Am 26.09.2002 06:39 schrieb(en) Eric Buddington:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:56:55PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > connection.disconnect() and returning 'true' in the callback function
> > should have the same effect, i.e. stop further calls of the callback
> > function, remove the file descriptor from the poll table and internally
> > destroy the 'connection node' and the 'source' structure. No recovery
> > is possible as all information about the filedescriptor to poll and
> > the callback function to call is deleted.
>
> Are you certain that a return value of 'true' acts as disconnect()? I
> had previously assumed that returning 'false' would do this (guessing
> from old GTK+ timeout docs), and it mostly worked. Swapping logic per
> your description above (true => disconnect) seems to break things more.

I didn't look it up but assumed that from your previous mail. I'll look
into the docs now... Done...

"It should return false if the source should be removed."
                 ^^^^^^^

Sorry for the confusion! Please mentally replace 'true' with 'false' in
my reply and check whether it is working for you. Otherwise please file
a bug report and supply a test case.

Thanks,

  Martin