Re: external events api

>>>>>"RM" == Roderic Morris <[email protected]> writes:
RM> It's not documented as far as I see, 

There is a section "External events" in the development version of the
documentation that describes how to use external events, see
doc/src/external.tex.

RM> but looking at its usage in the address package (see c/net/address.c
RM> and scheme/net/address.scm), it seems that we need to first create
RM> an external event uuid with s48_external_event_uid(), call
RM> wait-for-external-event on it, then use s48_note_external_event() in
RM> whatever thread the event is completed on, and finally release the
RM> uid when the original thread wakes up with
RM> s48_unregister_external_event_uid().

That sounds correct.

RM> If that's right, then I wonder if there are equivalents to those
RM> s48_* c functions in some scheme package? It looks like it'd be more
RM> straight forward to just create and unregister the uids in scheme.

Right, since the uids have to be shared between Scheme and C anyway,
they could also be created in Scheme and then exported to C.  This
functionality is currently only in the VM, though.

-- 
Marcus