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From:
David M. Lloyd
Date:
July 5, 2001 06:08
Subject:
Re: Asynchronous callbacks from C
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.21.0107050757490.17653-100000@homebody.freemm.org
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:

> > I have written an XS interface into a library that performs I/O and
> > then can asynchronously call a C function upon completion.  Is there a
> > SAFE way I can reflect an asynchronous callback into Perl?
> 
> AFAIK, only if the perl is built to expect such. In 5.8.0-to-be there
> is the PERL_ASYNC_CHECK which is used for safe signals. You would have
> to hack around a bit in the core to interface that to your XS, and
> even then it would only work with a perl built for it.
> 
> Maybe 5.8.0 should make PL_signal_pending or whatever it's called
> public and provide a way for modules to register a event-checking
> callback?

I can't help but be jealous of PHP/Zend in this respect.  I have a friend
who just wrote a signal handling *add-on* module (that is, there was no
hacking required of the core engine) because he was able to use an API
function to insert a C callback that is called between every opcode (or
whatever they call them... I think they have a subtly different name for
the same concept).

It would be awesome to have something like that in Perl.  I guess that the
performance hit associated with such a callback would be minimal... well
worth the added power.

- D

<dmlloyd@tds.net>


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