win32 patch dbus_watch_get_handle patch
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Sat Jun 16 07:29:15 PDT 2007
Hi,
Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Any problems with this patch ?
>
I had a bunch of comments in
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9334 that Peter mentioned,
those all remain it looks like.
- there should not be any dbus-specific fd-thingy, only sockets or
HANDLE
- internal functions should be in internal headers and
underscore-prefixed, not in public headers with #ifdef
DBUS_COMPILATION
- dbus_watch_get_fd() should probably return -1 on Windows
(i.e. the DBusWatch API should work like connection_get_unix_fd
and connection_get_socket, watch_get_fd does not have
unix in the name for historical reasons but should work like
it did)
Once the API is correct, I think you'll find that dbus-mainloop.c breaks
on Windows, because in there we are relying on the broken unix emulation
hack of an internal "file descriptor" object. dbus-mainloop.c is really
a part of the bus daemon, not libdbus, and thus can't use weird internal
fake descriptors.
The solution to this is to change the abstraction boundary in
dbus-mainloop.c so it does not have to deal with the socket/handle/fd
directly but can delegate doing so to the sysdeps-win.c and
sysdeps-unix.c files. One way to think of this is that _dbus_poll should
probably be in sysdeps-unix.h instead of pretending to be a
cross-platform API.
Havoc
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