[erlang-questions] NIFs and hooking file descriptors to Erlang-manged poll

[Daniel Goertzen]

You are talking about NIF Native Processes:
http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/377/RickardGreen-NativeInterface.pdf



On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Serge Aleynikov <serge@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Thanks Tony for the tip.  I was hoping there is some other way to call the
> emulator's internals without resorting to having to implement both a driver
> and a NIF library for this purpose.  It seems like it's somewhat an
> oversight in the NIF API design that needs to be addressed - there should
> be a NIF capable of associating an FD with a callback or else, as you
> mentioned, the implementation of this becomes more complicated than
> necessary when integrating with external C libraries.
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Why not write a small driver that can watch a number of file descriptors,
>> Get fd from a nif pass it to the driver_select_driver may be overkill but
>> fun.
>>
>> Could be a useful thing.
>>
>> I am working on something that may someday be capable of doing this,
>> ( https://github.com/tonyrog/niffed )
>> It is a a C library that allow you to call (linked) nif library from
>> driver code,
>> The marshalling code is actually building VM heap compatible data that
>> can be processed by the nif code, only by offsetting some pointers :-)
>> It is even possible to use the same shared object as both nif and driver!
>>
>> /Tony
>>
>> On 29 jan 2015, at 15:20, Serge Aleynikov <serge@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to hook a file descriptor from within a NIF function to
>> the select/epoll/poll loop managed by the emulator with a callback invoked
>> in the "NIF-land" on activity detected on the file descriptor?
>>
>> I am looking for similar functionality available to NIF functions that is
>> available when writing drivers using driver_select() call (*).  More
>> specifically, I have an eventfd file descriptor that I'd like to be
>> notified about without allocating a separate OS thread to poll on that FD
>> and return results by sending a message to a given Erlang Pid.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Serge
>>
>> (*) http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl_driver.html#driver_select
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