Re: sharing & streams

On torsdag, apr 10, 2003, at 14:13 Europe/Stockholm, Martin Roos wrote:

>
> Hi ,
>  has anyone any idea when will ithreads extend to the point that it 
> could share streams like socket & file handles ?
> i'm currently playing around with some little socket server's and 
> things like that but i almost always stump on the
> fact that i can only share the basic types of variables.
>  btw. if anyone has a goodlooking workaround how to get the handles 
> shared, even if only virtually , please share
> the knowledge with me :D
>  i have tried to play around with a solution which is based on the 
> idea that one thread has access to a socket and
> to a shared scalar and other threads may alter the shared scalar, 
> according to which the socket owner will take
> some actions, eg. read & write, but this is kindof slow and memory 
> exhausting on big i/o amounts. has anyone
> built other solutions ?
>
>  Martin
>

They can be shared in that they can exist in multiple threads, I don't 
know a good way of passing them between threads, I will try and 
experiment.

Arthur