comparison src/signals.c @ 10789:0caa9827edf5

[gaim-migrate @ 12431] " The following log snippets should explain it: " --rlaager (20:24:00) rlaager: Regarding the signal handling conversation the other day... I've written a patch to stop calling signal handlers and return as soon as we find one signal handler that returns TRUE to indicate that it's handled the signal. Is this the right approach? (20:24:22) Ethan Blanton (Paco-Paco): the trouble is that it's documented to behave exactly the way it does (20:24:31) Ethan Blanton (Paco-Paco): so changing it is notbackwards compatible (20:24:31) rlaager: I'm talking for HEAD. (20:24:41) Ethan Blanton (Paco-Paco): oh, I think that's a good approach, yes (20:24:53) rlaager: The way I've described is how I *expected* it to work, having not read the documentation. (20:25:09) Ethan Blanton (Paco-Paco): I'm convinced (20:27:04) Stu Tomlinson (nosnilmot): rlaager: this, I assume, breaks the generic-ness of signals, by assuming that any that return values return booleans? (20:27:26) Ethan Blanton (Paco-Paco): please break it (20:27:33) Ethan Blanton (Paco-Paco): we already have out-parameters (20:27:42) rlaager: nosnilmot: from what I can see, the return type is handled as a (void *)... so I'm checking that ret_value != NULL (20:27:57) rlaager: nosnilmot: that's the correct way to do it, right? ... (20:29:01) Ethan Blanton (Paco-Paco): allowing a meaningful return value is an over-engineering (20:30:07) rlaager: even after this patch, you should be able to return meaningful return values (20:30:15) rlaager: it'll just short-circuit on the first handler that does committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Luke Schierer <lschiere@pidgin.im>
date Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:55:02 +0000
parents c80a609bd747
children 50224ac8184d
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510 va_list args) 510 va_list args)
511 { 511 {
512 GaimInstanceData *instance_data; 512 GaimInstanceData *instance_data;
513 GaimSignalData *signal_data; 513 GaimSignalData *signal_data;
514 GaimSignalHandlerData *handler_data; 514 GaimSignalHandlerData *handler_data;
515 void *ret_val = NULL;
516 GList *l, *l_next; 515 GList *l, *l_next;
517 va_list tmp; 516 va_list tmp;
518 517
519 g_return_val_if_fail(instance != NULL, NULL); 518 g_return_val_if_fail(instance != NULL, NULL);
520 g_return_val_if_fail(signal != NULL, NULL); 519 g_return_val_if_fail(signal != NULL, NULL);
534 return 0; 533 return 0;
535 } 534 }
536 535
537 for (l = signal_data->handlers; l != NULL; l = l_next) 536 for (l = signal_data->handlers; l != NULL; l = l_next)
538 { 537 {
538 void *ret_val = NULL;
539
539 l_next = l->next; 540 l_next = l->next;
540 541
541 handler_data = (GaimSignalHandlerData *)l->data; 542 handler_data = (GaimSignalHandlerData *)l->data;
542 543
543 G_VA_COPY(tmp, args); 544 G_VA_COPY(tmp, args);
550 { 551 {
551 signal_data->marshal(handler_data->cb, tmp, 552 signal_data->marshal(handler_data->cb, tmp,
552 handler_data->data, &ret_val); 553 handler_data->data, &ret_val);
553 } 554 }
554 va_end(tmp); 555 va_end(tmp);
555 } 556
556 557 if (ret_val != NULL)
557 return ret_val; 558 return ret_val;
559 }
560
561 return NULL;
558 } 562 }
559 563
560 void 564 void
561 gaim_signals_init() 565 gaim_signals_init()
562 { 566 {