On 11/25/2011 05:56 PM, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
>> Is it possible to use both? Keep the select scheme for iohandlers and
>> slirp, but use g_main_context_iteration() for Glib stuff.
>
> Perhaps with two threads, but I think it's more complicated than
> merging the handle/fd sets and doing a single poll.
Why two threads?
Because you have two disjoint sets of file descriptors (iohandler+slirp
and glib), both of which have to be waited on for a possibly infinite
file. You cannot do that at the same time without two threads (unless
you alternatively poll one and the other).
Paolo
