I would really that somebody run an experience on wrapping some good unix async library. Stef
Are you talking about signaling the image when an IO event happens?
If so, see http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3384. The plugin is included in standard unix VMs.
I did a quick peek, if not perfect, it might be of much help.
On positive side: - it allows for async work with files and sockers
On might be improved side: - it depends on select call which in it self is not perfect for large number of file descriptors (like thousand(s)) - it seems to require Smalltalk process for each file desciptor, and ProcessScheduler might also not be happy with thousands of smalltalk processe - unix only.
Anyway, even so: - it will still probably be much better than synchronous way of doing things. - it might be used to experiment, design and prototype nice callback based API on the Smalltalk side.
Thanks!
Davorin Rusevljan http://www.cloud208.com/