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Re: timeouts, select, dispatch


From: Alain Magloire
Subject: Re: timeouts, select, dispatch
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:48:34 -0500 (EST)

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> > We have put support for non-blocking, it will work correctly
> > for POP3 mailbox.
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> I can understand it for the case of reading the body of a mail (with
> stream_read), but I would like to avoid blocking during more "atomic"
> operations (like headers fetching). Should I use sth like an alarm to

Not sure what you meant by "atomic"  in POP3 there is no way to
get one header(say From: or To:) but to download the entire headers of
the message.

> provide a timeout ? (I would like to avoid threads, as none of our
> other applications require it)

you can set the flag to be MU_STREAM_NONBLOCK when you mailbox_open(..)
it is an or value.  But the disavantage is that many calls can
return EAGAIN, and it is up to you to recall the function after
doing a select(stream_get_fd(), ...) on the fd.

I do not like it because something like:
int err = header_get_value("From", ...)
may actually return err == EGAIN since it maps to a call "top" for POP3.






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