Re: [Vala] Need help in debugging async code

[Michele Dionisio <michele dionisio gmail com>]

I think that now the patch is ok. I have add a bug for that on gnome bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772084

regards

2016-09-24 10:33 GMT+02:00 Nor Jaidi Tuah <norjaidi tuah ubd edu bn>:
> > now,
> >
> > _state_in_progress_ is assigned to -1 at beginning
> > the check if
> >
> > _state_in_progress_ == _state_ is move before the switch to work in
> > any state.
>
> That won't work either.
>
> The fundamental problem is that the caller
> that calls the callback (the mainloop or
> whatever alternative you have in mind) must
> be able to detect when the async method has
> progressed to the next state. For the mainloop
> solution, this is trivial. The alternative
> you have in mind (that calls before yield)
> must look at _state_ and _state_in_progress_;
> otherwise, it may livelock.
>
> There is no way you can solve this by tweaking
> async only[1]; you must also tweak the callback caller.
> I don't think the Vala community would accept that.
>
>
>
> [1] Of course I may be wrong in this assertion.
>
> Nice day
> Nor Jaidi Tuah
>
>
>
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