On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:00:46PM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> Eric Cooper wrote:
> >Try making the fd nonblocking before you create the glib channel:
> >    Unix.set_nonblock msg_fd;
> 
> That's how it was originally. But if you look again at my code, you can 
> see that the version with Unix.O_NONBLOCK is commented out. That's 
> because on one of my machines (the one with a newer version of GTK and 
> LablGTK, I believe), I got exceptions every time the program tried to 
> read the input.

Right, me too.  I use code like this to read from the channel inside
the watcher:

let try_read chan ~buf ~pos ~len =
  try Some (Glib.Io.read chan ~buf ~pos ~len)
  with Glib.GError "g_io_channel_read: G_IO_ERROR_AGAIN" -> None

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