From eef16461d69179c179eef0b41dffe7bfb7f2147a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: csoler <csoler@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:33:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] async markRead in channels to make it faster

---
 retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsModel.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsModel.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsModel.cpp
index 7350479e4..31eef8242 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsModel.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxschannels/GxsChannelPostsModel.cpp
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ void RsGxsChannelPostsModel::setAllMsgReadStatus(bool read_status)
     // 2 - then call the async methods
 
     for(uint32_t i=0;i<pairs.size();++i)
-        RsThread::async([p=pairs[i], read_status]()
+        RsThread::async([p=pairs[i], read_status]()	// use async because each markRead() waits for the token to complete in order to properly acknowledge it.
         {
             if(!rsGxsChannels->markRead(p,read_status))
                 RsErr() << "setAllMsgReadStatus: failed to change status of msg " << p.first << " in group " << p.second << " to status " << read_status << std::endl;