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<p class="p1">On 2013-06-24 09:30:47 +0000, Alessandro Sivieri said:</p>
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<p class="p3">Well, the asynchronous function of the library that I want to use actually uses select() in its implementation... so in a way it is already doing what I usually do with driver_select().</p>
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<p class="p5">The driver_select() descriptor is necessary to notify the VM of async events.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Simplified the VM uses the filedescriptor in a big select or poll call together with all other drivers its waiting on.</p>
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<p class="p5">If you can't use your library without doing its internal select() you need to run it in a separate thread like Max said and create a pipe to get a filedescriptor being passed in driver_select.</p>
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<p class="p5">You then can write a byte to the other end of the pipe from your asyncrously running library to signal that you want your ready_{input,output} callback called to process the event.</p>
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<p class="p5">AFAIK there is no other way to signal events to the VM from an separately running thread.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p class="p5">Cheers,</p>
<p class="p5">-- Peer</p>
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<p class="p3">On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Max Lapshin <span class="s1"><<a href="mailto:max.lapshin@gmail.com"><span class="s2">max.lapshin@gmail.com</span></a>></span> wrote:</p>
<p class="p3">It is good if you can find some file descriptor that is responsible for your hardware events.</p>
<p class="p3">If no then launch it in separate thread</p>
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<p class="p3">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p3">Sivieri Alessandro</p>
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