[nanomsg] Re: On the use of small integers instead of pointers to identify "sockets"
- From: Paul Colomiets <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 16:49:13 +0300
Hi Amaury,
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Amaury Bouchard <amaury@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2013/9/5 Paul Colomiets <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I think it's too slow for the use case. But anyway how would you do
>> that? Should socket pretend that it's a file? It's impossible to
>> select/poll on file, so that kills the whole idea.
>
>
> Honestly, I don't know. I wrote a basic filesystem during my studies 13
> years ago, and I would have been happy to use FUSE instead of hacking the
> kernel. But I don't know FUSE that much.
> Sockets prents to be files; even if you don't open them with open(), you can
> use read/write/close system calls to handle them.
AFAIK, only stat on pipes and sockets are checked. Data is never
written to FS so doesn't sent through FUSE.
> More, it seems that FUSE supports poll() =>
> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/classes/hmc.cs135.201001/homework/fuse/fuse_doc.html#function-purposes
>
AFAICS, it's different kind of poll.
But I wouldn't mind anybody try to do the work, may be I'm mistaken.
--
Paul
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