[erlang-questions] Sending messages to a process from the port driver from a separate thread

[Lukas Larsson]

Hi!

I'm no expert on the code in question, but after a brief look in
io.c:driver_deliver_term it would seem that you can do it from not
only scheduler threads, given that you are using the SMP emulator.

Lukas

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Zhemzhitsky Sergey
<Sergey_Zhemzhitsky@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi erlang gurus,
>
>
>
> Is it legal to send messages to any erlang process by means of
> driver_send_term from a separate thread started by erl_drv_thread_create?
>
> I.e. can I send messages to the process not from the port driver callback,
> but at any time from the function specified when invoking
> erl_drv_thread_create?
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Sergey
>
>
>
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