From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christian Mazakas <christian.mazakas@gmail.com>
Cc: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>,
Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>,
Gilang Fachrezy <gilang4321@gmail.com>,
io-uring Mailing List <io-uring@vger.kernel.org>,
VNLX Kernel Department <kernel@vnlx.org>,
GNU/Weeb Mailing List <gwml@vger.gnuweeb.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 liburing 2/2] README: Explain about FFI support
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 11:18:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34a2449a-8500-4081-dc60-e6e45ecb1680@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHf7xWs1hWvqb61tpBq63CLFvSk=kfAn_nq_2t2gf7O8V9qZ6A@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/14/23 9:25?PM, Christian Mazakas wrote:
> For some historical context, this feature came about from trying to
> consume liburing from Rust. liburing is such a powerful library and
> it's hard to replace so a dependency on it is reasonable for
> applications wishing to leverage io_uring without developers being
> systems-level experts.
>
> For languages that can't parse C headers, liburing-ffi saves quite a
> bit of effort in terms of bringing liburing itself to the application
> because it gives consumers a defined set of symbols in the binaries to
> link against.
Oh I know why it was done and why it's there, this is for the
purpose of the README addition. I think it should be a bit more
verbose and explain that.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-15 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-14 9:55 [RFC PATCH liburing v1 0/2] Explain how to build liburing and FFI support Ammar Faizi
2023-01-14 9:55 ` [RFC PATCH v1 liburing 1/2] README: Explain how to build liburing Ammar Faizi
2023-01-14 9:55 ` [RFC PATCH v1 liburing 2/2] README: Explain about FFI support Ammar Faizi
2023-01-14 17:19 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <CAHf7xWs1hWvqb61tpBq63CLFvSk=kfAn_nq_2t2gf7O8V9qZ6A@mail.gmail.com>
2023-01-15 18:18 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2023-01-16 4:18 ` Christian Mazakas
2023-01-16 13:44 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-16 13:54 ` Ammar Faizi
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