> why does the add_timeout work even when i move windows
> around and the add_fd methos blocks?
I don't know - I would expect it to block/not-block in the same was as
fd_add et al, so I;m not sure why it does not....
> do you have any other ideas on how i could get a
> nonblocking fd_add cb on the mac to "signal" my main
> thread?
Not so far...
> since, on windows, pipes are not supported would you
> recommend to use add_handler and call
> SendMessage(ui, some_unrecognized_event, 0, 0) from the
> worker?
Pipes are supported on win32 systems, just not in the same way... I have
an app that uses named pipes like this:
pipe_stat = mkfifo(pipe_name, 0666); // etc...
For *nix and OSX, and on win32 I use:
pipe_fd = CreateNamedPipe(pipe_name,
PIPE_ACCESS_DUPLEX,
PIPE_TYPE_BYTE | PIPE_READMODE_BYTE |
PIPE_WAIT, // | PIPE_NOWAIT,
1, //2,
0,
buf_sz,
INFINITE,
NULL);
To get a similar effect. Actually reading from the win32 pipes then uses
ReadFile(pipe_fd, buf, nbytes, &amount, NULL);
Rather than
read(pipe_fd, buf, nbytes);
And so on... But it does work.
> i'd really like to let the reader idle on all three
> platforms. currently i only got it working lockfree in
> linux.
Even on linux I've had some odd things - I suspect (but never bothered
to prove) that this might be related to which WM I am using at any given
time, it seems as if some block, some do not.
It's tricky. I have no useful answer I'm afraid.
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Ian
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