select
Version 0.4 revision 0 uploaded by GardSpreemann.
Package meta
- Synopsis
- Wrap the select(2) POSIX function
- Description
While tinkering on a project, I frequently found myself having to make FFI calls to
select(2)
. This package provides an interface to that system call.Changes in version 0.4:
Introduce an interface to
fd_set
.Add functions with various amounts of abstraction; in particular, select'' matches select in previous versions.
Retry
select(2)
in case of interruption by signals.Remove dependence on the vector package.
WARNINGS:
Behavior with write and exception file descriptors is under-tested. Feedback is welcome.
This package is far from complete, and should be tested throughly before being relied upon.
TODO:
Return the error code specified by errno if
select
fails.Possibly move the select retry code from C to Haskell.
Reorder functions to make the documentation more logical.
Use hsc2hs's #const to get preprocessor constants (removes some of FdSet's cbits.c).
NOTE: I feel I'm occupying prime namespace realestate with a package name like select. I'll happily let myself be chased away if someone more qualified wants to use this package name. Let me know.
- Author
- Gard Spreemann
- Bug reports
- n/a
- Category
- System
- Copyright
- 2012 Gard Spreemann
- Homepage
- http://nonempty.org/software/haskell-select
- Maintainer
- Gard Spreemann <gspreemann@gmail.com>
- Package URL
- n/a
- Stability
- n/a