Peter,
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote:
> Hi Mitchell,
>
> Mitchell Hashimoto wrote:
> > > > but I was hoping perhaps there was a better way?
> > >
> > > Sorry not at this time. I think we want callbacks though, so feel
> > > free to discuss and send patches. :)
> >
> > Understood. Thanks.
> >
> > I haven't been using libssh2 long enough to feel comfortable enough
> > in suggesting API improvements, since I haven't quite immersed
> > myself in the "libssh2 way."
>
> There is no such thing.. libssh2 has evolved, and must continue to
> evolve. The libssh2 API can and should be expanded to become more
> useful, and the definition of useful should basically come from it's
> users.
>
>
> > But I agree that callbacks would be fantastic.
>
> So how would that work?
>
Haha! I can appreciate that point of view.
I suppose now that I think about it, a callback would be somewhat
difficult, since the client controls the sockets. So even though ideally in
my head libssh2 would tell me when I should read, I understand that is not
really feasible.
Instead, I believe it would be nice to do something like the following:
int libssh2_session_ready_channels(LIBSSH2_SESSION *, LIBSSH2_CHANNEL **)
Where this would return a LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN if the socket would block
when nonblocking is on, and the return value would basically behave just
like any other libssh2 call. It would return `0` when it was a success.
Normal libssh2 behavior. If 0 is returned, then the second parameter is set
to a pointer to a single channel that is ready to be read, or NULL if none
are ready. This would allow this sort of behavior:
int rc = 0;
LIBSSH2_CHANNEL *channel = NULL;
while ((rc = libssh2_session_ready_channels(sess, &channel)) == 0 &&
channel != NULL) {
// Read from `channel`
}
Again, like I said, I don't know the internal structure of libssh2 or
the feasibility of such a thing, but I can see looping through channels to
become overwhelming.
What do you think?
Best,
Mitchell
>
>
> //Peter
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