Re: polling sockets using glib

[tomas tuxteam de]

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On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:20:59AM +1000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi,
> I am writing a server application (using glib) in which I want to be 
> able to (frequently) turn polling on and off for given sockets.
>
> I am currently using g_io_add_watch to add a watch on a socket and 
> g_source_remove to remove the watch. This seems like an expensive way of 
> doing what I want. What is the recommended way of doing this?

This is what I'm doing too. Although it doesn't seem to add much
overhead in my case, I'd have preferred to have a "switch off" and
"switch on" a source without throwing away all data structures. May
be this could be a feature request? What do folks think?

I wouldn't mind whipping up a patch (but not this or next week).

Regards
- -- tomÃÂs
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