Hi, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have an app that talks UDP, and I'd like to use a glib-2.0 main > event loop to handle communication. (I can handle it myself using > sendto and recvfrom, but I'd like the main event loop to do polling > for me and then call my handler functions. > > So I (apparently naively) write the following (with error checking > mostly stripped for this email). > > > sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); > > memset(&saddr, 0, sizeof(saddr)); > saddr.sin_family = AF_INET; > saddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY); /* anyone can talk to us */ > saddr.sin_port = port; > ret = bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&saddr, sizeof(saddr)); > > ioc = g_io_channel_unix_new(sock); > ret = g_io_add_watch(ioc, G_IO_IN | G_IO_PRI, serve_input_handler, 0); You will need to unset the io channel's encoding (it defaults to UTF-8): g_io_channel_set_encoding (ioc, NULL, NULL); If you are looking for some example code that does UDP with GIOChannels, take a look at BSender and BReceiver in Blib: http://sven.gimp.org/blinkenlights/blib-1.1.5.tar.gz Sven _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
