[avahi] How to handle watch events
Lennart Poettering
lennart at poettering.net
Sun Aug 17 14:41:48 PDT 2008
On Thu, 07.08.08 14:54, Nathan Huesken (avahi at lonely-star.org) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question regarding AvahiWatch.
> - Is it possible to free all AvahiWatch in a AvahiPoll wihtout
> knowing them?
If you destroy the AvahiPoll object all watches should go away
automatically too.
> - How do I call watch_new and watch_free? Like this:
>
> AvahiWatch w=avahi_poll->watch_new(avahi_poll, ...);
> avahi_poll->watch_free(w)
>
> Is that correct?
Yes.
> - If I want to watch a socket for reading, writing error and closed connection, do I have to add 4 watch events like:
> AvahiWatch read=avahi_poll->watch_new(avahi_poll, AVAHI_WATCH_IN, ...)
> AvahiWatch write=avahi_poll->watch_new(avahi_poll, AVAHI_WATCH_OUT, ...)
> AvahiWatch error=avahi_poll->watch_new(avahi_poll, AVAHI_WATCH_ERROR, ...)
> AvahiWatch close=avahi_poll->watch_new(avahi_poll, AVAHI_WATCH_HUB, ...)
No, the idea is to create only a single watch by OR'ing the flags
together: AVAHI_WATCH_IN|AVAHI_WATCH_OUT or similar.
Lennart
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