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termite
Erlang style concurrency for Chicken Scheme
Documentation
Fundamental Operations
spawn
[procedure] (spawn THUNK)Create a process running thunk and returns its pid.
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[procedure] (! PID MSG)Send msg to process pid.
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[procedure] (? [TIMEOUT [DEFAULT]])Fetch a message from the mailbox. timeout is in seconds.
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[procedure] (?? PRED)Fetches next message that matches pred.
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[procedure] (!? PID MSG [TIMEOUT [DEFAULT]])Send msg to process pid and wait for a reply.
recv
[procedure] (recv ((PAT VAR ACTION) [...]) [(after TIMEOUT TMO-ACTION)])Receive a message, when it matches pat put it in var and take action (there can be many of these). Optionally, do tmo-action after timeout.
(This was documented from the termite.pdf, but it's not exported in chicken's termite.)
spawn-link
[procedure] (spawn-link THUNK)Create a process running thunk and returns its pid and link to it. When either process dies, and exception is raised in the other process.
spawn-linked-to
[procedure] (spawn-linked-to THUNK TO)Create a process running thunk and returns its pid and have it link to to (a pid). When either process dies, and exception is raised in the other process.
Distributed Operations
make-node
[procedure] (make-node HOST PORT)Creates a node object for host:port and returns the node object.
node-init
[procedure] (node-init NODE)Primary setup for creating a node to accept processes.
remote-spawn
[procedure] (remote-spawn NODE THUNK)Run thunk on node, returns pid. Node needs to have done a node-init.
remote-spawn-link
[procedure] (remote-spawn-link NODE THUNK)Run thunk on node and link to it, returns pid.
on
[procedure] (on NODE THUNK)Run thunk on node, returns result of thunk.
Error Handling
with-exception-catcher
[procedure] (with-exception-catcher HANDLER BODY)Installs a dynamically scoped exception handler handler for the duration of body. Resumes execution a the point where the handler was installed.
with-exception-handler
[procedure] (with-exception-handler HANDLER BODY)Installs a dynamically scoped exception handler handler for the duration of body. Resumes execution a the point where the exception was raised.
raise
[procedure] (raise EXCEPTION)Raises exception.
catch
[procedure] (catch HANDLER BODY)Catches an exception with handler during execution of body.
Stopping
shutdown!
[procedure] (shutdown!)Stops gracefully. Linked processes receive a "normal" exit message.
halt!
[procedure] (halt!)Stops ungracefully. Linked processes are clueless as to what happened.
terminate!
[procedure] (terminate! VICTIM)Forcefully terminate a local(!) process. Processed linked to victim get a terminated message.
Examples
Making a "server" process
(define pong-server (spawn (lambda () (let loop () (let ((msg (?))) (if (and (list? msg) (= (length msg) 2) (pid? (car msg)) (eq? (cadr msg) 'ping)) (let ((from (car msg))) (! from 'pong) (loop)) (loop))))))) (! pong-server (list (self) 'ping)) (?) --> pong
Selective message retrieval
(! (self) 1) (! (self) 2) (! (self) 3) (?) --> 1 (?? odd?) --> 3 (?) --> 2
Distributed processing
On node a:
(node-init (make-node "a.example.org" 12345))
On node b:
(define node-a (make-node "a.example.org" 12345)) (on node-a host-name) --> "a.example.org"
(define p (remote-spawn node-a (lambda () (let loop () (let ((x (?))) (! (car x) ((cdr x))) (loop)))))) (! p (cons (self) host-name)) (?) --> "a.example.org"
Notes
There's a paper about Termite.
Requirements
s11n mailbox mailbox-threads defstruct
Bugs and Limitations
Author
Gulliaume Germain, ported to Chicken by Christian Kellermann
Version History
License
Copyright (c) 2005-2008, Guillaume Germain<br> Termite is licensed under the same terms as Gambit-C (LGPL and Apache v.2)<br> It comes with absolutely no warranty of any kind.<br> LGPL 2.1