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From: "Brian S. Julin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:55:09 -0400 (EDT)
To: Lee Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: asych gii
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Lee Brown wrote:
>
> > What is the recommended means of receiving asynchronous(non-blocking)
> > events in GGI? All of the GII calls seem to be blocking? What
> > obvious element am I missing here?
>
> giiEventSelect with zero timeout. Note also you can call giiTSInit
> to make GII calls threadsafe, so you can do blocking calls in a separate
> thread.
My understanding of select is that it still blocks, it just multiplexes the blocking.
Let me rephrase my question. When I open a normal file I can pass as a flag O_ASYNC.
This will cause a SIGIO to be sent to the process whenever input becomes possible on
the file descriptor. Is this possible with a gii device?
Lee
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