On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 18:11 -0600, Jim George wrote: > Hello list, > In my application, I'm trying to connect to a remote webserver and > grab an image file (output of a CGI program), and I'm trying to use > GIO for this. I call g_file_new_for_uri with the URL, and then call > g_file_read to get the input stream. It works for the most part, but > I'm seeing that if the application ends up sending a larger number of > consecutive requests (user requests refreshes very often), the program > locks up. Running under gdb, I can do a ^C and backtrace, it fails on > the call to g_file_read. Somewhere deep inside g_file_read, the > program is waiting in a call to "poll". > > Am I calling things in the wrong order? I do have a cancellable and a > GError passed to g_file_read, if that makes a difference. g_file_read is synchronous. Unless you've tucked this stuff into a separate thread, you shouldn't use the synchronous API in a GUI application. Use async functions like g_file_read_async instead. http://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.29/GFile.html#g-file-read-async -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
