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-rw-r--r--src/xcb.h16
-rw-r--r--src/xcb_in.c14
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/xcb.h b/src/xcb.h
index 3e61ebd..8a81bb9 100644
--- a/src/xcb.h
+++ b/src/xcb.h
@@ -272,6 +272,22 @@ xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_wait_for_event(xcb_connection_t *c);
xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_poll_for_event(xcb_connection_t *c);
/**
+ * @brief Returns the next event without reading from the connection.
+ * @param c: The connection to the X server.
+ * @return The next already queued event from the server.
+ *
+ * This is a version of xcb_poll_for_event that only examines the
+ * event queue for new events. The function doesn't try to read new
+ * events from the connection if no queued events are found.
+ *
+ * This function is useful for callers that know in advance that all
+ * interesting events have already been read from the connection. For
+ * example, callers might use xcb_wait_for_reply and be interested
+ * only of events that preceded a specific reply.
+ */
+xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_poll_for_queued_event(xcb_connection_t *c);
+
+/**
* @brief Returns the next event or error that precedes the given request.
* @param c: The connection to the X server.
* @param request: The limiting sequence number.
diff --git a/src/xcb_in.c b/src/xcb_in.c
index 501e719..6107065 100644
--- a/src/xcb_in.c
+++ b/src/xcb_in.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_wait_for_event(xcb_connection_t *c)
return ret;
}
-xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_poll_for_event(xcb_connection_t *c)
+static xcb_generic_event_t *poll_for_next_event(xcb_connection_t *c, int queued)
{
xcb_generic_event_t *ret = 0;
if(!c->has_error)
@@ -543,13 +543,23 @@ xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_poll_for_event(xcb_connection_t *c)
pthread_mutex_lock(&c->iolock);
/* FIXME: follow X meets Z architecture changes. */
ret = get_event(c);
- if(!ret && _xcb_in_read(c)) /* _xcb_in_read shuts down the connection on error */
+ if(!ret && !queued && _xcb_in_read(c)) /* _xcb_in_read shuts down the connection on error */
ret = get_event(c);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&c->iolock);
}
return ret;
}
+xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_poll_for_event(xcb_connection_t *c)
+{
+ return poll_for_next_event(c, 0);
+}
+
+xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_poll_for_queued_event(xcb_connection_t *c)
+{
+ return poll_for_next_event(c, 1);
+}
+
static xcb_generic_event_t *get_event_until(xcb_connection_t *c, uint64_t request)
{
if(c->in.events && XCB_SEQUENCE_COMPARE(c->in.events->sequence, <=, request))