On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting "Brian S. Julin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > The wineserver service loop uses the new glibc poll(2) function.
> > This seems to be a convenience function on systems without
> > a kernel poll() call, implemented via select(), and on linux
> > uses the more efficient (?) kernel call. It won't integrate
> > neatly with giiEventSelect -- I'll have to rip the select()
> > emulation out of libc and use it to convert the wineserver
> > parameters to a select call in order to use giiEventSelect.
> > Alternatively, rather than doing this just for WINE, I
> > could provide a function e.g.
> >
> > int giiEventFPoll(gii_input *inp, gii_event_mask *mask,
> > struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int time out);
> >
> > ...would this be a worthy addition to LibGII?
> >
>
> AFAIK there's a gii (or was it ggi?) function that is only available
> on unix systems to poll gii events and perform select on a FDSET
> altogether. I think I've used it with network sockets. I don't remember
> quite well and I don't have my code right here.
>
> Anyway it must be found somewhere in manpages.
You are speaking about
/* Wait for filedescriptors and LibGGI events the the same time */
int ggiEventSelect(ggi_visual_t vis, ggi_event_mask *mask, int n,
fd_set *readfds, fd_set *writefds, fd_set *exceptfds,
struct timeval *timeout);
right?
It is in <ggi/ggi-unix.h>
CU,
Christoph Egger
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