On Apr 22, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, James Housley wrote: > >>> 1) We have libssh2_channel_set_blocking() and it controls *ALL* >>> functions to do blocking or non-blocking. This didn't work >>> before, and I didn't take >>> this route when I started to add *nb() functions. >> >> You are correct it did not work before, and creating *nb() >> functions make it very easy to slowly migrate to our goal of >> working fully in both blocking and non-blocking mode. > > I added the *nb() functions mostly to not change how the old > blocking ones work. Even if the changes would only be subtle. I'm > beginning to think I did the wrong choice.
[snip] > >> Or, the new function I proposed can be added so libssh2 just >> figures it out for itself. > > I don't see in what situations libssh2 wouldn't know which mode to > use/set. I think maybe we should remove the *nb() functions and make the old names just work. I would also like to keep old programs working in all cases, as long as they didn't set non-blocking to true (since we know that didn't work). But before proceeding I would like to wait a while, April 29th, to allow others a chance to chime in. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is no similarity. -- From the "I wish I'd said that" archives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ libssh2-devel mailing list libssh2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libssh2-devel
