Use GFileMonitor from GIO instead of directly dealing with inotify. Ciao, Emmanuele.
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 at 07:58, David C. Rankin < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > All, > > I have a small editor project I've worked on the past several months[1]. > I > want to add an `inotify` watch on the current filename after each open or > save > to detect modification by a foreign process. I have the details of adding > the > watch and polling the file descriptor with `pselect`, creating a new > signal to > be emitted on the inotify events, and blocking/unblocking the signal for > normal saves from within the editor, but where I'm stuck is how to > incorporate > monitoring `pselect` from the event loop after the `inotify` watchset is > created? > > Where normally, you would simply call a function that would check whether > input was available on the file descriptor set monitored by `pselect` in a > loop, where in the GTK event loop would you incorporate the call to > `pselect`? > > I may have the answer, but what I'm looking for in an answer is "Yes, > that's > a logical approach." or a "No, dummy that's going nowhere." > > From the glib documentation, it appears that one logical vehicle for > doing > this is the `g_idle_add()` function which "Adds a function to be called > whenever there are no higher priority events pending to the default main > loop." This seems to match exactly what I'm trying to do. I could pass a > flag > via the data to control the return of TRUE/FALSE to remove from the list of > funcitons called when the filename changes, etc.. and within the function > check the return of `pselect` for any input and emit a signal if any > changes > were made to the file by a foreign process between the last check and now. > > Is this the proper vehicle for adding/removing a bit of code to the event > loop that I could use to monitor `pselect` or is there a better way of > doing > this? (the code is GTK+2, using the current glib functions, not the old > `gtk_idle_add()`, if that makes any difference) > > What say the experts? > > footnote 1: https://github.com/drankinatty/gtkwrite > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
