On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 13:20 +0100, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Am 19.03.2013 10:56, schrieb Tanu Kaskinen: > > I'd be OK with adding pa_simple_writable/readable_size(). I believe the > > multi-threading aspect of adding the write/read callbacks unavoidably > > makes writing applications not-simple, so the simple API probably > > shouldn't have those callbacks. > > > > It's not unlikely that an application that uses blocking or polling > methods uses an extra thread for that, which it wouldn't do if it could > use the callback method. So in this case the callback would simplify the > application, because the multi threading aspect is not in the > application logic but in pulseaudio. I don't know how common this case > is, but I would expect it's rather common. The applications would still need to be aware of the threading. pa_simple_read/write() is expected to be done from the main thread, so the application necessarily needs to implement some communication method between the two threads. -- Tanu
