Re: Watch not working correctly since linc 0.1.12

[Roland Juelich <rj atecom com>]

Hi Michael,

On 10-Jan-2002 Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Roland,
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 11:51, Roland Juelich wrote:
>> In my application, I may use the file descriptor directly to read the
>> channel.
>> If that is what you want, you probably should make the new
>> linc_io_add_watch_fd() public instead of linc_io_add_watch().
> 
>       Yes; that's true - however we are in an API freeze, personally I would
> just whack that prototype in a header of your choosing in your project
> if you want to use that API - I can't see it changing anytime soon.
> 
That was my first approach.

>       Or just create a throwaway GIOChannel to pass the fd to the public
> add_watch API.
> 
>       Were you using g_io_channel to do anything useful ? 
Just to not have to define the file descriptor global.

> alternatively of
> course, you could hack up a patch to ensure that the GIOChannel gets set
> on the source to whatever value is passed in or NULL - how does that
> sound ? I'd be happy to commit that. Perhaps that solves your problem
> more elegantly.
> 
I'd hoped you say that. Here comes the patch.

>       Apologies for the loss of service :-)
> 
Don't bother, it's back again.

>       Regards,
> 
>               Michael.
Roland.

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