Advanced Interfacing Techniques
In addition to the techniques discussed earlier, there are a few additional techniques available for interfacing Erlang to external programs.
The techniques described next are being continually improved and tend to change with time more rapidly than Erlang itself. For this reason, they are not described here in detail. The descriptions have been moved into online archives so that they can be updated more quickly.
- Linked-in Drivers
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These programs obey the same protocol as the port drivers discussed earlier. The only difference is that the driver code is linked into the Erlang kernel and thus runs inside the Erlang OS main process. To make a linked-in driver, a small amount of code must be added to initialize ...
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