On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Emmanuel Oga <emmanuel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm doing some experiments on scripting wmii with the help of eventmachine. > I mounted the wmii fs [...] Then, I came up with this: > http://gist.github.com/390396
Why not talk directly to wmii via 9P instead of going through a mount (which will invalidate any benefits you might gain from eventmachine)? > In a way EM feels like a natural way of handling an event loop. Agreed. I would suggest grabbing Rumai's message library[1] and building your own transport layer[2] using EventMachine on top. However, note that Rumai already uses a single-threaded re-entrant transport strategy following the XCB cookie approach[3], so I don't know how much more benefit EventMachine will provide. [1] http://github.com/sunaku/rumai/blob/master/lib/rumai/ixp/message.rb [2] http://github.com/sunaku/rumai/blob/master/lib/rumai/ixp/transport.rb#L116 [3] http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/libxcb/tutorial/#requestsreplies > this voice on the back of my mind that keeps telling my this might be > overkill ... EM <=> mounted 9P <=> wmii (overkill) EM <=> wmii (maybe not)
