[erlang-questions] gen_tcp nonblocking send

[Valentin Micic]

Does this mean that O_NDELAY is not supported in Erlang? Not even as an 
undocumented feature? ;-)

V.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Ginsburg" <dg@REDACTED>
To: "Per Hedeland" <per@REDACTED>
Cc: <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] gen_tcp nonblocking send


> On 01.05.2008 14:20 Per Hedeland wrote:
>
>> I think this fits a common Erlang solution: "use another process".
>> I.e. have a separate "sender" process that just does the potentially
>> blocking gen_tcp:send(), ack'ing back to the "real" sender when it
>> returns. The "real", intelligent sender will send messages to this
>> process instead of calling gen_tcp:send() directly, and when it has sent
>> a message and not yet received the corresponding ack, it must go into
>> "intelligent queuing mode", where it buffers updates and eliminates
>> obsoleted ones. Implementing this in Erlang is simpler than describing
>> it.:-)
>>
>
> Yeah, this is what I figured when I woke up this morning. I'm hacking on
> it right now.
>
> Thanks for the kind advice. Indeed, Erlang's answer to any problem -
> just spawn yet another process :)
>
> -- 
> dg
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