<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:24 PM Sverker Eriksson <<a href="mailto:sverker.eriksson@ericsson.com" target="_blank">sverker.eriksson@ericsson.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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A resource will be deallocated when<br>
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* all terms created with enif_make_resource() have been garbage
collected<br>
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* AND the call to enif_alloc_resource() has been balanced by a call
to enif_release_resource()<br>
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* AND all calls to enif_keep_resource() have been balanced by an
equal number of calls to enif_release_resource()</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br>
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<div>On 05/02/2016 11:47 AM, Benoit Chesneau
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<div dir="ltr">I had a look in the doc but I can't figure exactly
how much a nif resource could live outside the process that
created it, ie. how others processes can write/read to it and
how to make sure the resource will be accessible to them.
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<div>So I created a nif resource that have the following
properties:</div>
<div><span style="line-height:1.5">- it is ref counted, each
time a call is made to it, the counter is incremented and
decremented when it return.</span><br>
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A resource already has an internal ref counter, which is decremented
by the GC and by enif_release_resource().<br>
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Adding your own ref counter is probably either redundant or just
plain wrong.<br>
Every call to enif_release_resource() must be balanced by a prior
call<br>
to either enif_alloc_resource() or enif_keep_resource(). You cannot<br>
release a resource that is still referred to by one of more terms.</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br>
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<div>- the process that create it will live until the vm is
closed</div>
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A resource it not tied to the process that created it,<br>
it is tied to the terms that refer it.</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Related to that I recently came with the following question:</div> How to tie a nif resource to a owner process to make sure it's cleaned if the process crash?</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Looking at the source of ETS it seems to use unexposed functions from</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/maint/erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h" rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(42,128,185);text-decoration:none;font-family:slack-lato,applelogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/maint/erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I think I miss a C function like "nif_tie_resource(pid, somecalleback)" . Or is there any code that already does that?</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">- benoît</div></div>