[erlang-questions] OTP 22 socket module

[Ingela Andin]

Hi!

Den ons 27 mars 2019 kl 08:20 skrev Andreas Schultz <
andreas.schultz@REDACTED>:

> Hi,
>
> Is a {active, N} like delivery of data planed for the new socket or will
> polling the recv methods be the only way the receive data? What about
> non-blocking connect and accept?
>
>
It is planned to have behaviours that implement the active behaviour  but
not as part of the socket module. The socket module should be the
primitives.



> My preference would be to get an active notification when data is
> available for receive and another one when when a non-blocking write is
> possible. Sending and reception should then be left to the caller.
> Same goes for non-block accept and connect. Call accept/connect with a
> async option and get some message when the procedures finishes.
>
> I do realize that all this could be build with a gen_server/gen_statem
> around socket, so I guess the real question is does it make sense to start
> build such a wrapper or are the plans to make async functions part of the
> socket module?
>
>
Maybe Michael will have some more comments.



> Thanks
> Andreas
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