[Slapt-get-user] Why doesn't the cancel button in gslapt work??

[Xavian-Anderson Macpherson]

Hi Jason,
That's exactly when it happens. During the update of available packages. 
Wait, now that I think about it, it happens for every operation. It's 
just that I more often try to stop updates with broken/dead repos.

Shingoshi

Jason Woodward wrote:
> Hi Shingoshi,
>
>   
>> It never has, for as long as I have used gslapt. Pressing cancel does 
>> absolutely nothing. You press it down, it pops back up. Nothing is
>> canceled.
>>     
>
> It sends the cancel notification to the other thread which is handling the downloading, which
> is handled in a callback that is registered with libcurl.  If libcurl is blocking the callback
> won't be called until libcurl resumes.  I've seen libcurl block during name resolution, for
> example, but I've never seen it block in such a way that the cancel notification never gets
> handled.  Is this during updating the source information, downloading packages, or all network
> activities?
>
>
> take care,
> jason
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