Re: Sockets with GTK 2.8.9 on WIN32

[Gabriele Greco <gabriele greco darts it>]

Daniel Atallah wrote:
> That is one of the changes that were made in Glib 2.8.x.  All of the
> win32 GIOChannel stuff was changed such that it'll leave your sockets
> in non-blocking mode.  See this bug report for more information: 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147392
>   
This seems very strange for me since glib 2.8 on Unix does not behave 
this way.

How can GTK be used as a multiplatform development system if it behave 
in different ways for the different platform it supports?
> Basically, if you want your socket to be non-blocking, you have to
> make it so in the input function every time it is triggered.
>   
So I've to add something like this in my input function (error checking 
omitted):

#ifdef WIN32
   unsigned long par = 0;
   ioctlsocket(fd, FIONBIO, &par);
#endif

This is quite ugly.
> I thought that I had seen this in the documentation somewhere, but
> apparently not.
>   
I've not found anything related to GLIB 2.6 -> 2.8 differences at least at:

http://www.gtk.org/api/

(incompatible differences seems related to 2.0 -> 2.2 migration)

Bye,
Gabry