Re: [GNUnet-developers] W32 console woes

[LRN]

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On 07.01.2014 20:52, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> On 01/07/2014 05:40 PM, LRN wrote:
>> With gnunet-conversation we now have an application with
>> interactive console UI. Which requires selecting on a console. 
>> Skip to the last paragraph for the important part.
>> 
>> I have found no way to wait (and thus select) on a console
>> handle. Thus it will have to be done with a thread. That thread
>> could work the same way the socket-selecting thread works (except
>> that it will only wait for a single console, not for a set of 
>> them) - i.e. it will be woken when selecting is needed, then it
>> will block on a read, and will either unblock and wake up
>> everyone else, or keep blocking, in which case the main thread
>> will force it to unblock by simulating a console write; then the
>> waiter thread will go to sleep until the next select call.
>> 
>> OR it could be implemented as a constantly-working thread that
>> just always reads from console, puts read data into a buffer and
>> maintains an event object that is set as long as there are events
>> in the buffer, thus allowing the main thread to just wait on that
>> event.
> 
> OR we could do our usual trick and fork another helper process to 
> interact with the console ;-).

That might work, as it turns console I/O into socket or pipe I/O (both
of which are supported), from the point of view of the application.
I'll dig a bit into this direction.

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