Re: Functions for embedders to override

At 7:04 PM -0400 8/9/04, Benjamin K. Stuhl wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>>Since we're running into Ponie issues with this, which means we'll 
>>run into Apache issues as well as any number of other systems....
>>
>>When Parrot's being embedded I can see the following functions 
>>needing overriding by the embedder:
>>
>>*) Memory: malloc, realloc, calloc, free
>>*) Signals: handler register, Handler un-register, signal raise, alarm set
>>*) Files: Open, close, seek, tell, read, write. (Possibly asynchronously)
>
>   *) Environment: getenv, setenv

Good point.

>   *) Threading/Process manipulation? (fork, spawn, wait, pthread_*) (Consider
>      an application built on a runtime that expects to know about all threads
>      in a process, or an embedder who wants to let their Parrot programs call
>      back into the main program or integrate into their main event loop.)

I'm not so sure about these, though I can see wanting to override 
them. I think I'll leave them off for now and we can add them later.

>   * Networking: socket, accept, connect, listen, etc. (see "Files")

Yeah, and this'll be ever so much fun too. We need to add in select 
and poll to that list.

>A good place to look at for the complete list is Perl 5's system abstraction
>layer.

Yeah. If you've got time to get a list I'd very much appreciate it.
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				Dan

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