[erlang-questions] How to exchange sensitive data with ports?

[Elena Garrulo]

2009/8/8 Illo de' Illis <illo@REDACTED>:
> Isn't it the very same "port driver" I suggested? That is:
>
> http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/c_portdriver.html

Thank you for the link.

Indeed, it seems that a blocking C procedure will block the Erlang
process: in the given example, "example_drv_output" is synchronous. Or
are the call to the linked-in driver managed on a different OS thread?

Thanks