Re: Using Glib::IOChannel for socket connections

[Robert Pearce <rob bdt-home demon co uk>]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk> wrote :
> You can set the file descriptor returned by
> socket() non-blocking and poll it in the same way as you can poll the
> one returned by accept() (certainly you can do that with select() so I
> imagine you can do it with Glib::SignalIO which uses poll() under the
> hood). The callback will execute when there is a new connection pending
> and you can call accept() on the file descriptor and establish the
> client connection. This is the way you do it in single-threaded
> programs.

I've done that in the past, and it does work. ISTR there was some oddity 
but it was small and easily solved. Might depend whether you need to be 
able to accept multiple connections. Possibly something to do with 
making a new IOChannel for the accept()'d connection.
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