Hi Serge, I'm working on an erlang driver, if you're interested check it out. http://github.com/dhammika/erlzmq This is experimental/half-baked code, but most of the basic functionality is there.
Dhammika On 5/11/10, Serge Aleynikov <se...@aleynikov.org> wrote: > Hi, > > The current design of zmq_poll(3) call assumes the "ownership" of a the > event objects such that it'll make the underlying poll call on the > number of event objects (i.e. file descriptors or zmq sockets) and block > for a specified timeout. > > When integrating this library with other libraries (such as Erlang VM), > they may have their own event loop and facility to add/remove file > descriptors along with providing a callback indicating that there's > activity on given file descriptors. > > I'd like to see if the following requirement sounds reasonable. > > Objective > --------- > Allow external event loops control ZMQ communications layer. > > > Implementation > -------------- > Add two new functions: > > int zmq_poll_prepare(pollfd* fds_, zmq_pollitem_t *items_, int nitems_, > int* zmq_signaler_fd_); > Initialize the fds_ array of size nitems_ with file > descriptors from items_. If there are ZMQ sockets in the items_ > array, *zmq_signaler_fd_ will contain the index of the ZMQ signaling > fd. Otherwise *zmq_signaler_fd_ will be set to -1. > > int zmq_poll_check(pollfd* fd_, zmq_pollitem_t* item_, int event_, > short type_) > This function needs to be called after externally detected activity > on event_. fd_ and item_ is the pollfd and zmq_pollitem_t structs > corresponding to event_ item. > The function will process internal ZMQ commands and update > item_->revents corresponding to the type_ of event detected. > > I'd like to hear your feedback about adding this feature and can provide > the implementation if there's interest of including it in the library. > > Serge > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
