Dan Sugalski wrote:
Since we're running into Ponie issues with this, which means we'll run into Apache issues as well as any number of other systems....
When Parrot's being embedded I can see the following functions needing overriding by the embedder:
*) Memory: malloc, realloc, calloc, free *) Signals: handler register, Handler un-register, signal raise, alarm set *) Files: Open, close, seek, tell, read, write. (Possibly asynchronously)
*) Environment: getenv, setenv *) Threading/Process manipulation? (fork, spawn, wait, pthread_*) (Consider an application built on a runtime that expects to know about all threads in a process, or an embedder who wants to let their Parrot programs call back into the main program or integrate into their main event loop.) * Networking: socket, accept, connect, listen, etc. (see "Files")
A good place to look at for the complete list is Perl 5's system abstraction layer.
-- BKS
