Re: [gtkmm] Problem with Glib::signal_io

[Anastasios Bassoukos <abas aix meng auth gr>]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:16, Find All wrote:
> I'm trying to use a caracter device that uses the parallel port for the 
> comunication.
[snip]
> The driver for the device doesn't implement all the function of a caracter 
> device (for example the flush option is disabled), and some other don't 
> behave as a caracter device should do (for example the read function works 
> diferent).
> Could this affect the behaviour of the signal_io function???

The GTK/GDK main loop uses select() or poll() to determine what file
descriptors are readable/writable. Your device driver has to implement
this in the kernel to work correctly with the main loop.

However, if it is already implemented, I'm stumped.

HTH,
Tassos

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