assuan external loop over socket

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:33:10 -0500,
Ben Kibbey <bjk at luxsci.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Allow me to ask for a clarification: You want to read status messages
> > *while* you have an inquire operation ongoing?  Normally, assuan
> > servers do not send status messages while they are receiving inquire
> > data.  I have never considered this possibility.  It seems overly complex.
> 
> Yeah, this is what I meant, but it's not crucial.

It's also outside of the Assuan protocol "as intended".  :) So, if we
can discard this use case, we can make the following discussion
simpler.  Otherwise, we should discuss the situation with and without
this use case separately.

> I did find another use
> in my app for external IO over a socket, so the sooner this feature can
> get added, the better. :)

Did you consider not using assuan_transact for asynchronous operations
a la GPGME?  Even if this is not the best solution, it would help me
if you could say that doing so would address your use case completely,
or if you see other interfaces to be affected.

Thanks,
Marcus