On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 04:21 -0500, Freddie Unpenstein wrote: > This is a side-topic, raised by developments in handling DBus, but > something I feel is worth asking... Is there any mechanism for making > working with asynchronous stuff easier?
I recently filed this bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565501 for adding support for fibers to GLib. In that bug, you'll find a proof-of-concept patch for modern unices and some notes/links about how to do this on ancient unices and Win32 too. The proposed GFiber API is sorta incomplete; we need to figure out the right API to handle multiple concurrent requests. But I think all that is pretty doable; just haven't gotten around to it. Since you mention D-Bus, note that even though the example in the bug uses gio, GFiber can be used with EggDBus or any async API that uses the the async IO stack from libgio (GAsyncResult, GAsyncReadyCallback and _finish() functions). David _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
