[erlang-questions] gen_tcp:accept use within a gen_fsm process

[igwan]

It works well. Thanks for pointing this out.
This blocking call stuff is unusual for me, but maybe I'm too used to 
message passing and asynchronicity :)
I would have expected gen_tcp to send messages for incoming connections 
attempts and let the code decide if it accepts the connection or not. As 
far as I read in the doc, there's no means of refusing or selectively 
ignoring an incoming tcp connection based on eg. origin IP address. You 
must already have  blindly accepted the TCP connection before you have 
access to this info. Or am I missing something again ?
I see there exists a port and a linked-in driver for raw sockets (at 
least for *nix OSes) on Jungerl. Has someone already implemented 
transport protocols (TCP SCTP ...) directly inside the erlang VM ?

best regards,

igwan

Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) a écrit :
> You can pass along e.g. the parent pid to the 
> init/1 function, then use 
>
>  proc_lib:init_ack(Parent, {ok, self()}
>
> then perform your blocking call, and then:
>
> gen_fsm:enter_loop(Module, Options, StateName, StateData, FsmName)
>
> See the documentation on gen_fsm.
>
> The enter_loop() function was introduced specifically
> for this kind of thing.
>
> BR,
> Ulf W
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED 
>> [mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] On Behalf Of igwan
>> Sent: den 25 juni 2007 13:42
>> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
>> Subject: [erlang-questions] gen_tcp:accept use within a 
>> gen_fsm process
>>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I'm writing a small TCP test application. I want each TCP 
>> connection to be handled by one gen_fsm process. I could have 
>> one 'acceptor' process calling gen_tcp:accept, then spawning 
>> a gen_fsm for each accepted incoming connection. But in the 
>> doc, I read that, since a recent version of Erlang/OTP, I can 
>> have any number of processes waiting in a gen_tcp:accept 
>> call, so I wouldn't need the acceptor process anymore. My 
>> question is about best practice. Where would you call 
>> gen_tcp:accept in the gen_fsm module ? Into the init/1 
>> function ? Like this :
>>
>> -module(tcptest_fsm).
>> -behaviour(gen_fsm).
>>
>> init([Listen_socket] = Args) ->
>>     {ok, Socket} = gen_tcp:accept(Listen_socket),
>>     ...
>>     {ok, conn_accepted_state, SD}.
>>
>>
>> I'm not very confident about puting such a blocking call at 
>> the init phase as the process wouldn't be initialized until a 
>> connection arrives and thus not supervised (Am I right ?).
>> Or maybe the new possibility offered by gen_tcp:accept wasn't 
>> intended for use within a OTP system ?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> igwan
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