Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] main: switch qemu_set_fd_handler to g_io_add_watch

[Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>]

On 25/11/2011 15:49, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/25/2011 03:46 PM, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
>>> >  slirp is fd_set---thus select()---based.  iohandler too, though it would likely be simpler to switch it to poll().
>> Right, for slirp and iohandler, but it seems wrong to take file
>> descriptors from g_main_context_query() and put them in the fd_sets for
>> select(). This part is still in the code today.
> 
> It's ugly, but it works.

For Windows I'm not sure it will work.

> There's a fundamental impedence mismatch between glib and
> slirp/iohandler.  Either you convert glib's pollfds to fd_sets, or you
> take slirp and iohandler's fd_sets and put them in pollfds.
> Converting slirp and iohandler to produce pollfds is not easy because
> Windows does not have poll---so you'd still have a pollfd-to-fd_set
> conversion somewhere.

Is it possible to use both? Keep the select scheme for iohandlers and
slirp, but use g_main_context_iteration() for Glib stuff.

> Believe me, I thought this through. :)
>

I know, I just try to understand ;)

-- 
Fabien Chouteau