Re: timeouts, select, dispatch

[Alain Magloire]

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> > Not sure what you meant by "atomic"  in POP3 there is no way to
> > get one header(say From: or To:) but to download the entire headers of
> > the message.
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> I meant atomic in the sense of a unique call to mailutils that will
> perform a series of POP3 commands and return a result.
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> > you can set the flag to be MU_STREAM_NONBLOCK when you mailbox_open(..)
> > it is an or value.  But the disavantage is that many calls can
> > return EAGAIN, and it is up to you to recall the function after
> > doing a select(stream_get_fd(), ...) on the fd.
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> Ok. But once a command (say TOP 1 0) is sent to the server, and there
> is a delay for the answer, the command will return EAGAIN. But then,
> calling the function again will reissue the TOP command ? Or is there
> a track of pending calls ?
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Yes, it keep tracks, You will have to reissue the same command.
Actually reissuing another command will return EBUSY or something,
since the "TOP 1 0" is not complete, the code will not let you do things like
"RET 1" until the "TOP .." finish.