[avahi] `avahi_simple_poll_iterate ()' with TIMEOUT > 0

Ludovic Courtès ludovic.courtes at laas.fr
Fri Mar 10 00:47:23 PST 2006


Hi,

"Sebastien Estienne" <sebastien.estienne at gmail.com> writes:

> from the api docs: "If sleep_time > 0 the function will block for at
> most the specified time in msecs."
> so the attached callback have at most TIMEOUT msec to execute, it will
> not always block till timeout.

Sure, but it actually never does anything, even with TIMEOUT == INT_MAX.
Additionally, given the relative complexity of the code, I think the
intent was not to just mimic:

  if (timeout > 0)
    return 0;

;-)

Thanks,
Ludovic.


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