-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07.01.2014 20:52, Christian Grothoff wrote: > On 01/07/2014 05:40 PM, LRN wrote: >> With gnunet-conversation we now have an application with >> interactive console UI. Which requires selecting on a console. >> Skip to the last paragraph for the important part. >> >> I have found no way to wait (and thus select) on a console >> handle. Thus it will have to be done with a thread. That thread >> could work the same way the socket-selecting thread works (except >> that it will only wait for a single console, not for a set of >> them) - i.e. it will be woken when selecting is needed, then it >> will block on a read, and will either unblock and wake up >> everyone else, or keep blocking, in which case the main thread >> will force it to unblock by simulating a console write; then the >> waiter thread will go to sleep until the next select call. >> >> OR it could be implemented as a constantly-working thread that >> just always reads from console, puts read data into a buffer and >> maintains an event object that is set as long as there are events >> in the buffer, thus allowing the main thread to just wait on that >> event. > > OR we could do our usual trick and fork another helper process to > interact with the console ;-).
That might work, as it turns console I/O into socket or pipe I/O (both of which are supported), from the point of view of the application. I'll dig a bit into this direction. - -- O< ascii ribbon - stop html email! - www.asciiribbon.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSzMepAAoJEOs4Jb6SI2CwUYQH/iThvMUYccR+oK6m4fn/fduA LjmABLkO894f+PSGNtfWWYxX8PnUCpeUwsC4Q3DfQZTy8hD5QtFO4tYy2DNltac7 McNy9nAj9kJV6dQmcDxTcl1mUIeYnwf060N8L51PTvHp+1luY9Y7qK2a64pDBL5i DHEyRx3lsJH6rFdJXBAvLTvCTsdQiiyQKK7G24u3f9T3BY4OJviIpN7dRfn+LmTo 1p5x6WHJK4NxVt7XMkl/7TwIuo6MRgKhrnExh8XfAZV+vY1AwV2pMWscvRQnaFwE yRmFt2Vc0xjRa0I6Zz8I0UjYCB4oa6b/FsOuUQwNBCE04nVqIVG9oKzknuGANNs= =yyir -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ GNUnet-developers mailing list GNUnet-developers@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers
