*fix* make timer non-blocking to fix freezing when a timer is resetted in a callback function

git-svn-id: http://tint2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@282 121b4492-b84c-0410-8b4c-0d4edfb3f3cc

src/tint.c

@@ -709,6 +709,19 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
 
 		// Wait for X Event or a Timer
 		if (pselect(max_fd+1, &fdset, 0, 0, 0, &empty_mask) > 0) {
+			// we need to iterate over the whole timer list, since fd_set can only be checked with the
+			// brute force method FD_ISSET for every possible timer
+			timer_iter = timer_list;
+			while (timer_iter) {
+				timer = timer_iter->data;
+				if (FD_ISSET(timer->id, &fdset)) {
+					uint64_t dummy;
+					if ( -1  != read(timer->id, &dummy, sizeof(uint64_t)) )
+						timer->_callback();
+				}
+				timer_iter = timer_iter->next;
+			}
+
 			while (XPending (server.dsp)) {
 				XNextEvent(server.dsp, &e);
 
@@ -786,22 +799,6 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
 						break;
 				}
 			}
-
-			// we need to iterate over the whole timer list, since fd_set can only be checked with the
-			// brute force method FD_ISSET for every possible timer
-			timer_iter = timer_list;
-			while (timer_iter) {
-				timer = timer_iter->data;
-				if (FD_ISSET(timer->id, &fdset)) {
-					uint64_t dummy;
-//printf("reading from timer->id=%d\n", timer->id);
-					read(timer->id, &dummy, sizeof(uint64_t));
-//printf("Callback timer->_callback\n");
-					timer->_callback();
-//printf("Timer callback finished\n");
-				}
-				timer_iter = timer_iter->next;
-			}
 		}
 
 		switch (signal_pending) {

src/util/timer.c

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <sys/timerfd.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
 
 #include "timer.h"
 
@@ -38,6 +39,11 @@ int install_timer(int value_sec, int value_nsec, int interval_sec, int interval_
 	t->id=timer_fd;
 	t->_callback = _callback;
 	timer_list = g_slist_prepend(timer_list, t);
+
+	int flags = fcntl( timer_fd, F_GETFL, 0 );
+	if( flags != -1 )
+		fcntl( timer_fd, F_SETFL, flags | O_NONBLOCK );
+
 	return timer_fd;
 }