[avahi] Announcing libavahi-ui

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 08.02.07 15:58, Sjoerd Simons (sjoerd at luon.net) wrote:

> > Hmm, I don't think this is a good idea. Firstly, the commit() function
> > does something similar. (and does it the real way, i.e. it is indeed
> > atomic) Admittedly though, it works only once after creation of the entry
> > group. Secondly, Avahi accumulates multiple changes into a single
> > packet anyway. i.e. you have at least 50ms or so to pass your TXT
> > changes to Avahi and they will be sent out to the network as a single
> > packet.
> 
> Yeah, the freeze and thaw stuff is purely for the Second case. While it's 
> great that avahi optimizes so changes are batched, freeze/thaw does actual give
> you guarantees instead of assuming that you'll be fast enough (Oh and probably
> saves some dbus round-trips too).

Hmm, your code makes guarantees? How's that if the underlying Avahi
code cant give you those?

> > > Any feedback is very much appreciated :)
> > 
> > I forgot to paste the proper URLs in my original mail:
> > 
> > http://davyd.livejournal.com/152749.html
> > http://oracle.bridgewayconsulting.com.au/~davyd/misc/main.c.html
> 
> Ah this seems somewhat more high-level, while my code is really quite a thin
> wrapper around avahi's native API. Both have their advantages and disadvantages
> ofcourse.
> 
> Did you contact Davyd for feedback or ... ?

Nope, I didn't. I wasn't sure if your code was already at a point
where you want public feedback.

Lennart

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