On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
These signal events will
presumably be processed by some kind of underlying event handler that
mediates among any and all user-visible event handlers within the
process.
Now *that* made my eyes shine. ;)
I'm in favour of discussing this idea too (I like it myself :) ).
Adding a library-agnostic event loop at the core is something that might
be very much powerfull. The AnyEvent p5 modules is one of the most
interesting things in this regard in CPAN, it works with any event loop
(including POE, Event and EV).
So the default code that raises the control exception for each signal
would be registered in this event loop, as well as any code that wanted
to perform asynchronous IO, which would just register a listener for
"can_read" in soe IO handle.
We just need to sketch an API around that...
I've never heard of AnyEvent before now, but after a quick skim over,
I'd say the AnyEvent API looks good. Any opinions on that?
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