Re: Moving main loop to GLib.

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

Tor Lillqvist writes:
>I guess I would, even with your proposal, still like to have the file
>descriptors as used on Unix hidden away in one layer of abstraction,

Ugh...  Imposing an abstraction like this on Unix source would suck.
People shy away from FILE*, why use some weird GIOChannel if they
won't even use FILE*'s?

>My main point is that instead of having for instance:
>
>gp_quit_write (int fd)
>...
>  if (!wire_write_msg (fd, &msg))
>    return FALSE;
>
>we would have:
>
>gp_quit_write (GIOChannel *channel)
>{
>...
>  if (!wire_write_msg (channel, &msg))
>    return FALSE;

If we have a macro that works something like this (someone else
can come up with the right name for the macro):
  if (!write_write_msg (G_IOCHANNEL_FD(fd), &msg)
    return FALSE;
then it would be OK, I guess.  I'd really rather that the burden
of abstraction was moved over to the windows platform by hiding
a "fd" (magical numbers cooked up by glib under windows) which
is an index into an array of structures that holds all the
information that glib under windows needs.

michaelkjohnson

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