On 14 Jul 2005, at 13:16, David Nicol wrote:
I have uploaded asynchronous::universal::ready and asynchronous::universal::set_callback to CPAN. They are both entirely trivial packages with a mess of documentation. The idea behind them is to support asynchonous frameworks in which the immediate result of passing away a message is a placeholder object with a ready method that will return a false value until its result message comes back, at which time the placeholder upgrades itself to a result.
I took a look at them when you loaded them to CPAN but couldn't quite figure out how they would fit into something like qpsmtpd's async framework - we don't poll a bunch of objects for readiness state - we have to let the OS kernel notify us through the epoll/poll/kqueue framework.
Matt.
