How to use watches with the DBus C API and select()

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 13 de dezembro de 2013 16:18:36, Andrew Cann wrote:
> Hello all. I'm building a small DBus library and I'm wondering if it's
> possible to use watches with a select() based main loop. The problem with
> select is I can only detect whether a socket is readable/writable, I don't
> have any method (that I know of) to correctly set DBUS_WATCH_ERROR and
> DBUS_WATCH_HANGUP when calling dbus_watch_handle. Is it sufficient to check
> for errors and hangups through select's read and write sets and trust
> libdbus to handle the situation correctly when it fails to read from or
> write to the file descriptor? Or do I really have to use poll() for
> something like this?

Just ignore them. If you pass just read and write activity to the reference 
library, it will be enough. Hangups will be detected by a read activity 
notification followed by a read() call returning 0.

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