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DriverManager
DriverManager — Click element; a Script that manages driver stop events
DriverManager(INSTRUCTIONS...)
Ports: any number of inputs, any number of outputs
DriverManager is simply a Script element whose default TYPE is "DRIVER
".
Click driver stop events suggest that the driver should stop processing. Any element can register a driver stop event; for instance, trace processing elements can stop the driver when they finish a trace file. You generally request this functionality by supplying a 'STOP true' keyword argument.
Driver stop events normally stop the driver: the user-level driver calls
exit(0)
, or the kernel driver kills the relevant kernel threads. The
DriverManager element changes this behavior. When a driver stop event occurs,
the router steps through the DriverManager's script by calling its step
handler. The driver exits only when the script ends or a stop
instruction
is executed.
For example, the following DriverManager element ensures that an element,
k
, has time to clean itself up before the driver is stopped. It waits for
the first driver stop event, then calls k
's cleanup
handler, waits for a
tenth of a second, and stops the driver.
DriverManager(pause, write k.cleanup, wait 0.1s, stop);
Use this idiom when one of your elements must emit a last packet or two before the router configuration is destroyed.
Generated by click-elem2man from ../elements/standard/drivermanager.hh:7
on 2018/10/03.