From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
To: Guile-Devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Unbuffered socket I/O
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:27:07 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slcsfqk4.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877iu59fm8.fsf@laas.fr> (Ludovic Courtès's message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:07:43 +0100")
ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> Right. That's an incompatible change if the _output_ is buffered.
> Input can be buffered, though, without this being visible by users.
Alas, that too is in an incompatible change, because recv! ignores
buffering.
> Fortunately, port buffering doesn't have to be symmetrical (although the
> API allowing to do that is internal---actually, we might want to expose
> and document `scm_fport_buffer_add ()').
Sounds good. Perhaps `setvbuf-input' and `setvbuf-output' for the two
directions. They could go in 1.8 too if you're careful with the
implementation.
Might have to check the SCM_BUFLINE and SCM_BUF0 flags are ok though.
Suspect the answer is yes, SCM_BUFLINE being an output side feature,
and SCM_BUF0 already merely a combination read==unbuf + write==unbuf.
> Thus, I propose the following
> change, where sockets are turned into ports whose output is left
> unbuffered and whose input is buffered.
The manual could emphasise that unbuffered is not what you want if
reading piecemeal, but the default should stay as advertised.
> BTW, do you know what the purpose of `fport_wait_for_input ()' is?
Maybe left from the 1.6 cooperative threads.
> It
> does nothing for O_NONBLOCK streams and waits for events otherwise.
> Since, for blocking streams, `read ()' does not return until either EOF
> is reached or at least one octet was read, `fport_wait_for_input ()'
> seems redundant.
Ahh, hang on, I wonder if it's a hack to do an "exit guile" while
blocked within a read(), thus allowing gc to run in other threads.
If that's true then presumably the write side is afflicted too, as
well as various other potentially blocking operations like
read-string!/partial and gethost.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-23 17:09 Unbuffered socket I/O Ludovic Courtès
2007-02-23 22:36 ` Neil Jerram
2007-02-25 22:57 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-02-26 14:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-02-26 20:32 ` Neil Jerram
2007-02-26 23:35 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-02-27 9:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-02-28 21:24 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-03-01 9:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-03-04 23:48 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-03-07 0:20 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-03-07 0:30 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-03-07 4:45 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-03-07 9:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-02-26 23:27 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2007-02-28 9:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-02-28 20:59 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-03-01 10:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-03-05 23:15 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-08-07 16:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-05-13 17:13 ` `scm_std_select ()' call in `fport_wait_for_input ()' Ludovic Courtès
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