Blocking code for Windows Pipes.

[Jouni Malinen]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:25:32PM -0700, George S. Lockwood wrote:

> And here is hopefully my last finding...I'm finding that the following
> code burns up 100% resouces until it pending finds something when it
> peeks, the a msg is read and processed.

wpa_ctrl_pending() does not block, so if you call it in while(true)
loop, you have a busy loop.. The current wpa_gui implementation uses a
periodic poll routine to check whether there are any pending events and
will process them. In other words, it does not keep a separate thread
polling for new messages. If you want to use a separate thread, you
could probably just block on wpa_ctrl_recv().

> the while(true) keeps the thread running, so doesn't the pending call
> to peek need to block in some way??

> 		while( wpa_ctrl_pending( pThis->m_pWpa_ctrlMonitor ) ) //monitor_conn

wpa_ctrl_pending() can return -1 to indicate and error, so this should
be wpa_ctrl_pending() > 0.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA