good morning/evening/afternoon, whatever matches your timezone :-) i've been scratching my head over one issue for some time and couldn't find anything helpful on the net either so here's my last resort i hope.
i have a unix/c program using, surprise, libevent. it runs 3 events, a tcp client, a tcp listener and a timer. everything works fine. the problem now is that the server to which i connect the tcp client event drops out occasionally. because of that i added the timer event to do checks. that works fine, too. now if i notice that the server is down i want to reconnect without killing the event loop so that the listener is not affected. what i do in case of a disconnect is close the socket, event_del, event_free. after that i connect the socket again and then add the event the same way as i do when the programs starts: evutil_make_socket_nonblocking(so); client = event_new(base, so, EV_READ|EV_PERSIST, incoming, (void *)base); event_add(client, NULL); at this point nothing comes in at all so i tried event_active(client, NULL, NULL) which only works for a second or so meaning i get 3 lines and nothing after that. now the big question is is it possible to add an event while the main loop is running? and if so what did i miss? any sort of hints would be very much appreciated :-) -- ah-consulting.net Götz T. Fischer CertIT&Comp Senior Consultant Phone: +49(0)7225/98 98 79 eMail: [email protected] http://www.ah-consulting.net http://www.ah-webhosting.com *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
