Re: timeouts, select, dispatch

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Guess what, I've another question :-)
> 
> Is there any provision to integrate mailutils in a main loop where
> other file descriptor should be listened to, or at least is it
> possible to define read timeouts ? I've looked into the stream.c and

The underlying fd is available

stream_get_fd()

> tcp.c, but found no clue as what to do...
> 


We have put support for non-blocking, it will work correctly
for POP3 mailbox.

But I going to submit the proposal to no longer support non-blocking IO
it is responsible for 60% of the code bloat.  Probably the use of
threads is better.