On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> David M . Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I have written an XS interface into a library that performs I/O and then
> >can asynchronously call a C function upon completion.
>
> Is it really asynchronous ? - what initiates the callback ?
As far as I can tell, the callback is somehow triggered by another
thread that is running, so it is truily asynchronous.
> Also really modern perl 5.7.1+ has "safe" (synchronous) signals now,
> so you may be able to piggy-back that.
But nothing in Perl 5.6.x (aside from hooking PL_runops), right?
- D
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