the main loop

[sfora dim]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Macartney, Geoff
<gmacartney at tycoint.com> wrote:
> I found Kimmo Hämäläinen's post below very useful in figuring out how to construct a main loop, just writing in C.
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2007-October/008859.html

Is it safe to use this main loop for both incoming and outgoing messges ?

I plan to run it in a dedicated thread and let other threads send
messages asynchronously..

Thank you very much for the help,
Sfora


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> Cheers
> Geoff
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> From: dbus-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:dbus-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of sfora dim
> Sent: 15 September 2008 10:51
> To: Thiago Macieira
> Cc: dbus at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: the main loop
>
> Hi Thiago,
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
>>>Or is it the application's (which is using dbus) main loop ? the one
>>>that periodically calls dbus_connection_read_write() to check if new
>>>msgs have arrived ?
>>
>> Applications wouldn't call dbus_connection_read_write().
>
> I'm writing a dbus service in C using libdbus. What dbus function
> should I call periodically in my main loop ?
>
> I thought I should call dbus_connection_read_write() because that's
> what dbus-example.c
> (http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus/dbus-example.c) use in its main
> loop (in the listen mode)...
>
> Thank you,
> Sfora.
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