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The variable we use to keep track of the watcher of the ssl connection should be unsigned. This isn't really a problem in Pidgin, where we use glib's mainloop and GIOChannels because glib starts assigning the handle IDs sequentially starting from 1. But if an eventloop implementation ever returns a handle ID greater than the largest possible signed integer (2,147,483,647) then we won't be able to remove the watcher because purple_ssl_close() in sslconn.c only removes it if inpa > 0, and since it interprets inpa as a signed value then handles over 2,147,483,647 appear as negative numbers. I stumbled upon this when playing around with libevent, which can use epoll. My implementation generated a random handle ID which was sometimes greater than 2,147,483,647. I don't believe this breaks binary compatibility. And I don't think it breaks source compatibility, but I guess it might depend on what compiler you're using.
author Mark Doliner <mark@kingant.net>
date Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:04:29 +0000
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/**
 * @file gtkidle.h GTK+ Idle API
 * @ingroup pidgin
 */

/* pidgin
 *
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 */
#ifndef _PIDGIN_IDLE_H_
#define _PIDGIN_IDLE_H_

#include "idle.h"

/**************************************************************************/
/** @name GTK+ Idle API                                                  */
/**************************************************************************/
/*@{*/

/**
 * Returns the GTK+ idle UI ops.
 *
 * @return The UI operations structure.
 */
PurpleIdleUiOps *pidgin_idle_get_ui_ops(void);

/*@}*/

#endif /* _PIDGIN_IDLE_H_ */