On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Thomas Harding wrote:
> My problem is that while using libssh2_channel_read_stderr, it seems to wait
> infinitely for data when no data is available, whatever channel is or is not
> in blocking mode.
Can you please provide a complete small source snippet that reproduces the
problem?
> I (half) solved the problem in non-blocking mode by polling for POLLERR (it
> seems to differs from the unix poll, as POLLERR is normally not significant
> in pollfd struct) "half", because since an error occurs, calling
> libssh2_poll on POLLERR success everytime. In that case, reading for stderr
> sipmly returns nothing (it doesn't block).
Actually, I find very little use for libssh2_poll() at all... When is that
ever useful? Since connections etc already are done outside the library the
application already knows the sockets etc and could just as well just use
regular poll(). Or what am I missing?
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Received on 2007-08-01