waiting for RPC method to be called

[Nobody III]

I'm not sure whether that will work for a library that needs a blocking
function call to load an image by calling a child process. It seems like
I'd need another thread, unless Genode has coroutine-like behavior with RPC
calls.

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 1:03 AM Emery Hemingway <ehmry at ...548...> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> The 'Genode' way would be not to block for RPC, but to only run the
> component during RPC or signal handling. If you need a component to
> execute between RPC calls then signal handlers would be the way to go.
> A private signal handler can perform the operations you need and block
> for RPC by returning from the signal handling function. If the
> execution should resume after RPC, send a signal to the local signal
> handler before finishing the RPC method.
>
> Cheers,
> Emery
>
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:13:33 -0600
> Nobody III <hungryninja101 at ...9...> wrote:
>
> > How do I get a component to wait for an RPC method to be called? Can
> > I use a semaphore, or will that block RPC calls? Do I need a thread
> > dedicated to handling RPC? If so, should I create a new
> > Rpc_entrypoint and tell it to manage the Rpc_object?
>
>
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