[avahi] avahi poll API, level triggered vs edge triggered

[Gaspard Bucher]

Hi list !

I am having a very difficult time creating an AvahiPoll API that should be
used with an edge triggered event loop (zeroMQ).

I must confess that I do not understand why the Avahi API is so complicated
(compared with dns-sd which is already not trivial). Why can't we simply
connect to the daemon with a socket (once for each registration/browse) ?
We would then only need one file descriptor per operation and either block
on recv or insert the file descriptor in an event loop. This is the
abstraction that dns-sd manages to provide with DNSServiceRefSockFD.

Anyway, before I start to fork and create pipes, I suspect my API to not
work because of this edge vs level triggering. Is there a way to "empty"
the content of newly created AvahiWatch and AvahiTimeout before registering
the file descriptors inside the poll loop ?

Cheers,

                                                               Gaspard
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