I'm developing a control system that uses libuv (1.34.2) on a GNU/Linux system. My control system basically has a mutex-protected in-memory message queue, posts my custom messages to it, and calls async_send(). The handler is an async handler run by the main loop.
You could think of each message as more or less corresponding to single, non-blocking function to be called in the main loop. So the handler pops a message off, uses it to decide what non-blocking function to call, and calls it. The problem I want to solve is that if I get a bunch of messages all at once in the queue (eg. after libuv coalesces async_send calls, or my control code posts multiple messages at once), I (a) don't want to monopolise the mutex and (b) don't want to monopolise the main loop. (a) is solved by popping the messages off the queue, storing them, releasing the mutex and then processing the messages outside the mutex lock. But (b) is a bit harder. I want to let libuv handle other things in between the function call for each message (if it needs to). Is there a way to give libuv a function to run once, queued up in the main loop? I couldn't find any API functions that simply add a one-off function call to the loop. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "libuv" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to libuv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/libuv/a3444d2a-ea5d-4042-b379-7cea75b5b81do%40googlegroups.com.
