[erlang-questions] enif_send from a thread after NIF returns

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:
> Is it possible to use enif_send to asynchronously message back to Erlang after the NIF returns?
>
> I'm wondering if enif_thread_create could be used to create a thread that continues running and eventually invokes enif_send.
>
> A practical example of using the above would be asynchronous io.
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>        Thanks for any guidance, Joel
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Quite possible. There's a simple example of sending a term in my
nif-examples [1] repo and a fairly more complex example in Emonk [2].

[1] http://github.com/davisp/nif-examples
[2] http://github.com/davisp/emonk