Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] plugin_mysql, to do list.

[Xavier V. <xav...@fr...>]

Hello Mirtin, hi list

> [...]
> My suggestion (and that's the way I understood Michael as well) is to 
> use a "worker process/thread" for each plugin that will be slow/may 
> block. Memory consumption is not so much an issue, since most of it will 
> be marked as "shared" anyway, so memory usage on the box will only 
> increase marginally.
Okay, I was misinformed about fork. Let's continue this way.
But another question : for example eval needs the mail('unread') value,
so calls a (hypothetical) mail() function in plugin_mail, which forks to
retreive POP summary, and it takes, for example, 5 seconds, what does
the eval do within this time ? I don't know what Michael wants on this
issue.

> A syscall? Care to explain? All I know so far is that the wireless 
> extensions API works via IOCTL calls - I never heard/read of syscalls 
> for that in the past (maybe this is simply about a different definition 
> of "syscall" - to me, a "syscall" is a function exported by the kernel - 
> whereas an IOCTL call is a specific syscall, that takes specific 
> parameters (and those parameters tell it what to do)).
I don't really know what is the difference, I've not been hacking IOCTL
 since this week :), but read linux-2.6.4/include/net/iw_handler.h,
 there are a bunch of explanations there for the new API.
If it's possible, I would prefer to call this [IOCTL|syscall] instead of
parsing /proc/net/wireless, as it's funnier and more educative for me.

> So, you _are_ working on that (or did you just add it to your ToDo 
> list)? Don't get me wrong - I just want to make sure we don't duplicate 
> work (and still get a working wifi plugin in a timely manner). I've 
> added plenty of things onto my ToDo list in the past (which I never 
> completed), so I want to make sure :-)
I'll write this, but you may help me if you know [IOCTL|syscall] well,
as I don't know either how to do :)
Reading plugin_dvb.c, IOCTL are special adresses in a /dev node, while,
as far as I understand wireless extensions have merged in
linux/include/linux/netdevice.h, and "INET is implemented using the BSD
Socket interface as the means of communication with the user level"
Help ?!?!

Bye !
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Xavier VELLO <xav...@fr...>