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I want some of them callbacks!I want some of them callbacks!Posted Oct 31, 2002 20:56 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)In reply to: I want some of them callbacks! by IkeTo Parent article: sys_epoll - making poll fast
I think there is an interesting disconnect between the low-level hackers and the higher level network/application level hackers here. A lot of the interesting projects that I know of (not to mention the ones that I lead myself: Mnet), use select()/poll() interfaces exactly as I've described above -- as nothing more than a way to get at the callbacks which they then immediately de-multiplex back into callbacks. The projects I'm thinking of here are things like Twisted, and E (although the current E implementation doesn't use kernel calls, as it is in Java...). Regards, Zooko
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I want some of them callbacks! Posted Nov 2, 2002 21:15 UTC (Sat) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] Maybe IkeTo gave too comprehensive an answer...Is it too tricky to have the kernel change to user context and invoke a function pointer that I have given it? Yes. Whenever the kernel calls user code directly, non-obvious and non-trivial race conditions result. It's a very difficult problem. Much easier to just have the system call return, and then the user can deal with the callbacks however she/he wants.
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