Re: proposal about glib

From: Johan Dahlin <jdahlin async com br>
To: Havoc Pennington <hp pobox com>
Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org, yangyang hexun com
Subject: Re: proposal about glib
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:48:26 -0300

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2008/6/25  <yangyang hexun com>:
>> 1）I use glib's main event loop, but why glib's main event loop don't support
>> epoll/kqueue?

The GLib event loop has been designed to handle a low number of file
descriptors. Typical Gtk+ applications uses only 1 file descriptor (the X
connection).

See the bug Havoc mentioned and also:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143061

Johan

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