Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 3/9] libxl: ocaml: event management

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 16:48 +0000, Rob Hoes wrote:
> Having bindings to the low-level functions libxl_osevent_register_hooks and
> related, allows to run an event loop in OCaml; either one we write ourselves,
> or one that is available elsewhere.
> 
> The Lwt cooperative threads library (http://ocsigen.org/lwt/), which is quite
> popular these days, has an event loop that can be easily extended to poll any
> additional fds that we get from libxl. Lwt provides a "lightweight" threading
> model, which does not let you run any other (POSIX) threads in your
> application, and therefore excludes an event loop implemented in the C
> bindings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Hoes <rob.hoes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Scott <dave.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>



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