On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 17:41:09 +0100 Christian Grothoff <groth...@gnunet.org> wrote:
> On 12/2/19 4:49 PM, José Bollo wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 15:08:39 +0100 > > José Bollo <jo...@nonadev.net> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 15:04:52 +0100 > >> José Bollo <jo...@nonadev.net> wrote: > >> > >> rereading comment of MHD_USE_INTERNAL_POLLING_THREAD my question > >> looks stupid > > > > No in fact the question is serious. There is no simple way to let > > run MHD on the main thread. It requires implementing an external > > poll/select loop. > > > > Can you provide an integrated main that serves and doesn't return > > until stopped? > > That doesn't make sense to me, as then we don't have a 'stop' > condition. With the internal polling thread, you can simply implement > a while (! stop); yourself, and if you never want to stop, "while(1) > sleep(1);" would do. > > But usually you then _must_ do something else until you encounter your > stop condition, and so that is what you should implement. Or you have > an existing event loop, in which case you should use MHD's external > event loop. > I tried to write something like "while(true) MHD_run();" but strace showed its inefficiency. IMHO it can make sense: "1. setup 2. run" without exit conditon and not bound to any stdin, i.e. a normal unix daemon.
