Hello,
I'm curious about Iolib. I've been looking into ways to do multiplexing IO in common lisp. I know how I would do that in traditional (Unix) C via non-blocking IO and select().
I've admittedly not read the manual as of yet. It seems that Iolib has something like an event loop which probably invokes user specified callbacks for IO ready streams/fds.
Now I'm wondering, is the event loop thread safe? Is there still a way to use something like the traditional select() call (which basically means not to use the event loop and determine the readiness of stream/fds the old fashioned way)?
Thanks, Frank
On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 14:08 -0600, FAU wrote:
Hello,
I'm curious about Iolib. I've been looking into ways to do multiplexing IO in common lisp. I know how I would do that in traditional (Unix) C via non-blocking IO and select().
I've admittedly not read the manual as of yet. It seems that Iolib has something like an event loop which probably invokes user specified callbacks for IO ready streams/fds.
Now I'm wondering, is the event loop thread safe?
No, you'll have to come up with your own locking.
Is there still a way to use something like the traditional select() call (which basically means not to use the event loop and determine the readiness of stream/fds the old fashioned way)?
You mean, by returning a list of events ? No, although one thing you could try is perform one-shot runs of the event loop, after which the loop exits and you have to start it again. IOW, run your own loop outside the multiplexer loop.
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Stelian Ionescu