Also, the Racket file IO is already using select()/etc underneath, so when you `sync' on file ports or TCP ports, etc, you're already using select.
Jay 2011/2/9 Noel Welsh <noelwe...@gmail.com>: > Yes to all your questions. > > - Socket ports are syncable events in Racket. Just call (sync > input-port ...) to block for available data > - The FFI makes it easy to call system functions. However, if you > want to interface to epoll/kqueue I would advise binding to libev or > libevent instead. > > HTH, > N. > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:40 AM, jenny sun > <jenny.sun.jenny....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Can Racket access to system calls like select () in unix? >> or there are there APIs that can check channel data ready or not? e.g. >> socket's data whether ready to read or write or not? >> >> Thanks, >> >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev >> > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev