I'm developing a cross platform application using Glib to provide portability. I've made heavy use of Windows events (i.e. CreateEvent) in the past - they allow a thread to sleep indefinitely until one of a group of events is signaled by another thread. What the best way to do something similar using Glib?
I see two ways. The first is to use a GCond with g_cond_timed_wait. This has two disadvantages - the thread may only wait on a single signal type, and there's a GMutex involved, which I'm not using for any other purpose. The second is to use a GAsyncQueue with g_async_queue_timed_pop. This would allow the thread to wait for multiple event "types" - the contents of the pointer popped of the queue would indicate what type of "event" was being signaled. It seems GAsyncQueue is the right structure for this purpose - just want to ensure there's no structures I'm overlooking, or nothing about the GAsyncQueue which makes it unsuitable for this purpose.... _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
