RFE: .so filters

[Ferry Huberts]

On 09/01/14 22:34, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm thinking about this filtering situation w.r.t. gravatar and
> potentially running multiple filters on one page. Something I've been
> considering is implementing a simple dlopen() mechanism for filters,
> if the filter filename starts with "soname:" or "lib:" or similar, so
> as to avoid the fork()ing and exec()ing we currently have, for high
> frequency filters. The idea is that first use of the filter would be
> dlopen()'d, but wouldn't be dlclose()'d until the end of the
> processing. This way the same function could be used over and over
> again without significant penalty.

In olsrd we have something similar, but there we load the plugins when 
they are specified in the configuration file.

http://olsr.org/git/?p=olsrd.git;a=summary

>
> In my first thinking of this, the method of action would be the same
> as the current system -- "int filter_run(int argc, char *argv[])" is
> dlopen()'d, executed, and it reads and writes to the dup2()'d file
> descriptor. Unfortunately, the piping in this introduces a cost that
> I'd rather avoid. In the case of gravatar (or more generally, email
> author filters), we'd be better off with a "char *filter_run(int argc,
> char *argv[])", that can just return the string that the html
> functions will then print. This, however, breaks the current filtering
> paradigm, and might not be ideal for filters that enjoy a stream of
> data (such as source code filters). This distinction more or less
> points toward coming up with a library API of sorts, but I really
> really really don't want to add a full fledged plugin system. So this
> has me leaning toward the simpler first idea.
>
> But I'm undecided at the moment. Comments and suggestions are most welcome.
>
> Jason
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Ferry Huberts