Re: threading from Andrew Wong on 1999-03-19 (www-lib@w3.org from January to March 1999)

From: Andrew Wong <wong@powertv.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:53:20 -0800
To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>, www-lib@w3.org
Message-Id: <4.1.19990319094709.00a00f10@powertv.com>

>>GDB trace showed that the failure caused at the very first call to connect()
>>i.e. before HTLoadAnchor() returns. And therefore HTEventList_loop() in 
>>showlinks.c doesn't even get chance to run.
>
>I don't think it fails but rather it doesn't complete because you are using
>non-blocking sockets. Non-blocking sockets (non-preemptive mode) require an
>eventloop that libwww can use (this doesn't have to be the default libwww
>eventloop:

No, it's not because of non-blocking. If it doesn't complete, it will
set EINPROGRESS to errno rather than ENOENT (which leads to a TCP_ERROR)


Andrew

Received on Friday, 19 March 1999 12:53:25 UTC