Thanks On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Olaf Buddenhagen <olafbuddenha...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:48:36PM +0100, Eddy Bruel wrote: > > > To make IPC channels usable with Tokio, we'd have to take whatever low > > level IO primitive IPC channels use under the hood, and then reimplement > > the same logic that the existing IPC channels implement on top of this, > but > > using a streams based API (by streams, I mean the streams from the > > futures-rs, crate). > > > > I'm not quite sure how much work this would be, since I don't know how > > complex ipc channels are under the hood. > > The low-level I/O in some of the platform back-ends in ipc-channel is > quite intricate -- and might change in incompatible ways at any time. I > don't think it's a good idea to try reimplementing it. Rather, we should > try to reuse as much of the existing low-level code as we can, while > creating an alternative API entry point. > > My *intuition* is that this should be quite doable -- though of course I > might be wrong... Especially since I'm not really familiar with Tokio > yet, beyond having some very rough idea of what it does. > > -antrik- > _______________________________________________ > dev-servo mailing list > dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo > _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
