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    <title>driver_entry</title>
    <prepared>Jakob Cederlund</prepared>
    <responsible>Jakob Cederlund</responsible>
    <docno>1</docno>
    <approved></approved>
    <checked></checked>
    <date>2001-10-01</date>
    <rev>PA1</rev>
    <file>driver_entry.xml</file>
  </header>
  <lib>driver_entry</lib>
  <libsummary>The driver-entry structure used by Erlang drivers.</libsummary>
  <description>
    <marker id="WARNING"/>
    <warning>
      <p><em>Use this functionality with extreme care.</em></p>
      <p>A driver callback is executed as a direct extension of the
        native code of the VM. Execution is not made in a safe environment.
        The VM <em>cannot</em> provide the same services as provided when
        executing Erlang code, such as pre-emptive scheduling or memory
        protection. If the driver callback function does not behave well,
        the whole VM will misbehave.</p>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>A driver callback that crash will crash the whole VM.</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>An erroneously implemented driver callback can cause a VM
            internal state inconsistency, which can cause a crash of the VM,
            or miscellaneous misbehaviors of the VM at any point after the
            call to the driver callback.</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>A driver callback doing
            <seealso marker="erl_driver#lengthy_work">lengthy work</seealso>
            before returning degrades responsiveness of the VM, and can cause
            miscellaneous strange behaviors. Such strange behaviors
            include, but are not limited to, extreme memory usage, and bad
            load balancing between schedulers. Strange behaviors that can
            occur because of lengthy work can also vary between Erlang/OTP
            releases.</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </warning>

    <p>As from ERTS 5.9 (Erlang/OTP R15B) the driver interface
      has been changed with larger types for the callbacks
      <seealso marker="#output"><c>output</c></seealso>,
      <seealso marker="#control"><c>control</c></seealso>, and
      <seealso marker="#call"><c>call</c></seealso>.
      See driver <seealso marker="erl_driver#version_management">
      version management</seealso> in
      <seealso marker="erl_driver"><c>erl_driver</c></seealso>.</p>

    <note>
      <p>Old drivers (compiled with an <c>erl_driver.h</c> from an
        ERTS version earlier than 5.9) must be updated and have
        to use the extended interface (with
        <seealso marker="erl_driver#version_management">version management
        </seealso>).</p>
    </note>

    <p>The <c>driver_entry</c> structure is a C struct that all Erlang
      drivers define. It contains entry points for the Erlang driver,
      which are called by the Erlang emulator when Erlang code accesses
      the driver.</p>

    <p><marker id="emulator"></marker>
      The <seealso marker="erl_driver"><c>erl_driver</c></seealso> driver
      API functions need a port handle
      that identifies the driver instance (and the port in the
      emulator). This is only passed to the <c>start</c> function, but
      not to the other functions. The <c>start</c> function returns a
      driver-defined handle that is passed to the other functions. A
      common practice is to have the <c>start</c> function allocate
      some application-defined structure and stash the <c>port</c>
      handle in it, to use it later with the driver API functions.</p>

    <p>The driver callback functions are called synchronously from the
      Erlang emulator. If they take too long before completing, they
      can cause time-outs in the emulator. Use the queue or
      asynchronous calls if necessary, as the emulator must be
      responsive.</p>

    <p>The driver structure contains the driver name and some
      15 function pointers, which are called at different
      times by the emulator.</p>

    <p>The only exported function from the driver is
      <c>driver_init</c>. This function returns the <c>driver_entry</c>
      structure that points to the other functions in the driver. The
      <c>driver_init</c> function is declared with a macro,
      <c>DRIVER_INIT(drivername)</c>. (This is because different
      operating systems have different names for it.)</p>

    <p>When writing a driver in C++, the driver entry is to be of
      <c>"C"</c> linkage. One way to do this is to put the
      following line somewhere before the driver entry:</p>

    <pre>
extern "C" DRIVER_INIT(drivername);</pre>

    <p>When the driver has passed the <c>driver_entry</c> over to
      the emulator, the driver is <em>not</em> allowed to modify the
      <c>driver_entry</c>.</p>

    <p>If compiling a driver for static inclusion through
      <c>--enable-static-drivers</c>, you must define
      <c>STATIC_ERLANG_DRIVER</c> before the <c>DRIVER_INIT</c> declaration.</p>

    <note>
      <p>Do <em>not</em> declare the <c>driver_entry</c> <c>const</c>.
        This because the emulator must
        modify the <c>handle</c> and the <c>handle2</c>
        fields. A statically allocated, and <c>const</c>-declared
        <c>driver_entry</c> can be located in
        read-only memory, which causes the emulator to crash.</p>
    </note>
  </description>

  <section>
    <title>Data Types</title>
    <p><c>ErlDrvEntry</c></p>
    <code type="none">
typedef struct erl_drv_entry {
    int (*init)(void);          /* Called at system startup for statically
                                   linked drivers, and after loading for
                                   dynamically loaded drivers */
#ifndef ERL_SYS_DRV
    ErlDrvData (*start)(ErlDrvPort port, char *command);
                                /* Called when open_port/2 is invoked,
                                   return value -1 means failure */
#else
    ErlDrvData (*start)(ErlDrvPort port, char *command, SysDriverOpts* opts);
                                /* Special options, only for system driver */
#endif
    void (*stop)(ErlDrvData drv_data);
                                /* Called when port is closed, and when the
                                   emulator is halted */
    void (*output)(ErlDrvData drv_data, char *buf, ErlDrvSizeT len);
                                /* Called when we have output from Erlang to
                                   the port */
    void (*ready_input)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvEvent event); 
                                /* Called when we have input from one of
                                   the driver's handles */
    void (*ready_output)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvEvent event);  
                                /* Called when output is possible to one of
                                   the driver's handles */
    char *driver_name;          /* Name supplied as command in
                                   erlang:open_port/2 */
    void (*finish)(void);       /* Called before unloading the driver -
                                   dynamic drivers only */
    void *handle;               /* Reserved, used by emulator internally */
    ErlDrvSSizeT (*control)(ErlDrvData drv_data, unsigned int command,
                            char *buf, ErlDrvSizeT len,
			    char **rbuf, ErlDrvSizeT rlen);
                                /* "ioctl" for drivers - invoked by
                                   port_control/3 */
    void (*timeout)(ErlDrvData drv_data);
                                /* Handling of time-out in driver */
    void (*outputv)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlIOVec *ev);
                                /* Called when we have output from Erlang
                                   to the port */
    void (*ready_async)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvThreadData thread_data);
    void (*flush)(ErlDrvData drv_data);
                                /* Called when the port is about to be
                                   closed, and there is data in the
                                   driver queue that must be flushed
                                   before 'stop' can be called */
    ErlDrvSSizeT (*call)(ErlDrvData drv_data, unsigned int command,
                         char *buf, ErlDrvSizeT len,
			 char **rbuf, ErlDrvSizeT rlen, unsigned int *flags);
                                /* Works mostly like 'control', a synchronous
                                   call into the driver */
    void (*event)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvEvent event,
                  ErlDrvEventData event_data);
                                /* Called when an event selected by
                                   driver_event() has occurred */
    int extended_marker;        /* ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MARKER */
    int major_version;          /* ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MAJOR_VERSION */
    int minor_version;          /* ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MINOR_VERSION */
    int driver_flags;           /* ERL_DRV_FLAGs */
    void *handle2;              /* Reserved, used by emulator internally */
    void (*process_exit)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvMonitor *monitor);
                                /* Called when a process monitor fires */
    void (*stop_select)(ErlDrvEvent event, void* reserved);
                                /* Called to close an event object */
 } ErlDrvEntry;</code>
    <taglist>
      <tag><marker id="init"/><c>int (*init)(void)</c></tag>
      <item>       
        <p>Called directly after the driver has been loaded by
          <seealso marker="kernel:erl_ddll#load_driver/2">
          <c>erl_ddll:load_driver/2</c></seealso> (actually when the driver is
          added to the driver list). The driver is to return <c>0</c>, or, if
          the driver cannot initialize, <c>-1</c>.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="start"/>
        <c>ErlDrvData (*start)(ErlDrvPort port, char* command)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called when the driver is instantiated, when
          <seealso marker="erlang#open_port/2">
          <c>erlang:open_port/2</c></seealso> is called.
          The driver is to return a number &gt;= 0 or a pointer, or, if the
          driver cannot be started, one of three error codes:</p>
        <taglist>
          <tag><c>ERL_DRV_ERROR_GENERAL</c></tag>
          <item>General error, no error code</item>
          <tag><c>ERL_DRV_ERROR_ERRNO</c></tag>
          <item>Error with error code in <c>errno</c></item>
          <tag><c>ERL_DRV_ERROR_BADARG</c></tag>
          <item>Error, <c>badarg</c></item>
        </taglist>
        <p>If an error code is returned, the port is not started.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="stop"/><c>void (*stop)(ErlDrvData drv_data)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called when the port is closed, with
          <seealso marker="erlang#port_close/1">
          <c>erlang:port_close/1</c></seealso> or <c>Port ! {self(), close}</c>.
          Notice that terminating the port owner process also closes the
          port. If <c>drv_data</c> is a pointer to memory allocated in
          <c>start</c>, then <c>stop</c> is the place to deallocate that
          memory.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="output"/>
        <c>void (*output)(ErlDrvData drv_data, char *buf, ErlDrvSizeT len)</c>
      </tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called when an Erlang process has sent data to the port. The data is
          pointed to by <c>buf</c>, and is <c>len</c> bytes. Data is sent to
          the port with <c>Port ! {self(), {command, Data}}</c> or with
          <c>erlang:port_command/2</c>. Depending on how the port was
          opened, it is to be either a list of integers <c>0...255</c> or a
          binary. See <seealso marker="erlang#open_port/2">
          <c>erlang:open_port/2</c></seealso> and
          <seealso marker="erlang#port_command/2">
          <c>erlang:port_command/2</c></seealso>.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="ready_input"/>
        <c>void (*ready_input)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvEvent event)</c>
      </tag>
      <item></item>
      <tag><marker id="ready_output"/>
        <c>void (*ready_output)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvEvent event)</c>
      </tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called when a driver event (specified in parameter
          <c>event</c>) is signaled. This is used to help
          asynchronous drivers "wake up" when something occurs.</p>
        <p>On Unix the <c>event</c> is a pipe or socket handle (or
          something that the <c>select</c> system call understands).</p>
        <p>On Windows the <c>event</c> is an <c>Event</c> or <c>Semaphore</c>
          (or something that the <c>WaitForMultipleObjects</c> API
          function understands). (Some trickery in the emulator allows
          more than the built-in limit of 64 <c>Events</c> to be used.)</p>
        <p>To use this with threads and asynchronous routines, create a
          pipe on Unix and an <c>Event</c> on Windows. When the routine
          completes, write to the pipe (use <c>SetEvent</c> on
          Windows), this makes the emulator call
          <c>ready_input</c> or <c>ready_output</c>.</p>
        <p>False events can occur. That is, calls to <c>ready_input</c>
          or <c>ready_output</c> although no real events are signaled. In
          reality, it is rare (and OS-dependant), but a robust driver
          must nevertheless be able to handle such cases.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="driver_name"/><c>char *driver_name</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>The driver name. It must correspond to the atom used in
          <seealso marker="erlang#open_port/2">
          <c>erlang:open_port/2</c></seealso>, and the name of the driver
          library file (without the extension).</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="finish"/><c>void (*finish)(void)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called by the <c>erl_ddll</c> driver when the
          driver is unloaded. (It is only called in dynamic drivers.)</p>
        <p>The driver is only unloaded as a result of calling
          <seealso marker="kernel:erl_ddll#unload_driver/1">
          <c>erl_ddll:unload_driver/1</c></seealso>,
          or when the emulator halts.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><c>void *handle</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>This field is reserved for the emulator's internal use. The
          emulator will modify this field, so it is important
          that the <c>driver_entry</c> is not declared <c>const</c>.</p> 
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="control"></marker>
        <c>ErlDrvSSizeT (*control)(ErlDrvData drv_data, unsigned int command,
        char *buf, ErlDrvSizeT len, char **rbuf, ErlDrvSizeT rlen)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>A special routine invoked with
          <seealso marker="erlang#port_control/3">
          <c>erlang:port_control/3</c></seealso>.
          It works a little like an "ioctl" for
          Erlang drivers. The data specified to <c>port_control/3</c>
          arrives in <c>buf</c> and <c>len</c>. The driver can send
          data back, using <c>*rbuf</c> and <c>rlen</c>.</p>
        <p>This is the fastest way of calling a driver and get a
          response. It makes no context switch in the Erlang
          emulator and requires no message passing. It is suitable
          for calling C function to get faster execution, when Erlang
          is too slow.</p>
        <p>If the driver wants to return data, it is to return it in
          <c>rbuf</c>. When <c>control</c> is called,
          <c>*rbuf</c> points to a default buffer of <c>rlen</c> bytes, which
          can be used to return data. Data is returned differently depending on
          the port control flags (those that are set with
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#set_port_control_flags">
          <c>erl_driver:set_port_control_flags</c></seealso>).</p>
        <p>If the flag is set to <c>PORT_CONTROL_FLAG_BINARY</c>,
          a binary is returned. Small binaries can be returned by writing
          the raw data into the default buffer. A binary can also be
          returned by setting <c>*rbuf</c> to point to a binary allocated with
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_alloc_binary">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_alloc_binary</c></seealso>.
          This binary is freed automatically after <c>control</c> has returned.
          The driver can retain the binary for <em>read only</em> access with
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_binary_inc_refc">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_binary_inc_refc</c></seealso> to be freed later
          with <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_free_binary">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_free_binary</c></seealso>.
          It is never allowed to change the binary after <c>control</c> has
          returned. If <c>*rbuf</c> is set to <c>NULL</c>, an empty list is
          returned.</p>
        <p>If the flag is set to <c>0</c>, data is returned as a
          list of integers. Either use the default buffer or set
          <c>*rbuf</c> to point to a larger buffer allocated with
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_alloc">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_alloc</c></seealso>. The
          buffer is freed automatically after <c>control</c> has returned.</p>
        <p>Using binaries is faster if more than a few bytes are returned.</p>
        <p>The return value is the number of bytes returned in <c>*rbuf</c>.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="timeout"/><c>void (*timeout)(ErlDrvData drv_data)</c>
      </tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called any time after the driver's timer reaches <c>0</c>.
          The timer is activated with
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_set_timer">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_set_timer</c></seealso>. No priorities or
          ordering exist among drivers, so if several drivers time out at
          the same time, anyone of them is called first.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="outputv"/>
        <c>void (*outputv)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlIOVec *ev)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called whenever the port is written to. If
          it is <c>NULL</c>, the <c>output</c> function is called
          instead. This function is faster than <c>output</c>, as
          it takes an <c>ErlIOVec</c> directly, which requires no
          copying of the data. The port is to be in binary mode, see
          <seealso marker="erlang#open_port/2">
          <c>erlang:open_port/2</c></seealso>.</p>
        <p><c>ErlIOVec</c> contains both a <c>SysIOVec</c>,
          suitable for <c>writev</c>, and one or more binaries. If
          these binaries are to be retained when the driver returns
          from <c>outputv</c>, they can be queued (using, for example,
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_enq_bin">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_enq_bin</c></seealso>)
          or, if they are kept in a static or global
          variable, the reference counter can be incremented.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="ready_async"/>
        <c>void (*ready_async)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvThreadData
        thread_data)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called after an asynchronous call has completed.
          The asynchronous call is started with
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_async">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_async</c></seealso>.
          This function is called from the Erlang emulator thread, as
          opposed to the asynchronous function, which is called in
          some thread (if multi-threading is enabled).</p>
      </item>
      <tag><c>void (*flush)(ErlDrvData drv_data)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called when the port is about to be closed,
          and there is data in the driver queue that must be flushed
          before 'stop' can be called.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="call"/><c>ErlDrvSSizeT (*call)(ErlDrvData drv_data,
        unsigned int command, char *buf, ErlDrvSizeT len, char **rbuf,
        ErlDrvSizeT rlen, unsigned int *flags)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called from <seealso marker="erlang#port_call/3">
          <c>erlang:port_call/3</c></seealso>.
          It works a lot like the <c>control</c> callback, but uses the
          external term format for input and output.</p>
        <p><c>command</c> is an integer, obtained from the call from
          Erlang (the second argument to <c>erlang:port_call/3</c>).</p>
        <p><c>buf</c> and <c>len</c> provide the arguments to the call
          (the third argument to <c>erlang:port_call/3</c>). They can
          be decoded using <c>ei</c> functions.</p>
        <p><c>rbuf</c> points to a return buffer, <c>rlen</c> bytes
          long. The return data is to be a valid Erlang term in the
          external (binary) format. This is converted to an Erlang
          term and returned by <c>erlang:port_call/3</c> to the
          caller. If more space than <c>rlen</c> bytes is needed to
          return data, <c>*rbuf</c> can be set to memory allocated with
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_alloc">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_alloc</c></seealso>.
          This memory is freed automatically after <c>call</c> has returned.</p>
        <p>The return value is the number of bytes returned in
          <c>*rbuf</c>. If <c>ERL_DRV_ERROR_GENERAL</c> is returned
          (or in fact, anything &lt; 0), <c>erlang:port_call/3</c>
          throws a <c>BAD_ARG</c>.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><c>void (*event)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvEvent event,
        ErlDrvEventData event_data)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Intentionally left undocumented.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="extended_marker"/><c>int extended_marker</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>This field is either to be equal to <c>ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MARKER</c>
          or <c>0</c>. An old driver (not aware of the extended driver
          interface) is to set this field to <c>0</c>. If this field is
          <c>0</c>, all the following fields <em>must</em> also be <c>0</c>,
          or <c>NULL</c> if it is a pointer field.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><c>int major_version</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>This field is to equal <c>ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MAJOR_VERSION</c> if
          field <c>extended_marker</c> equals
          <c>ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MARKER</c>.</p> 
      </item>
      <tag><c>int minor_version</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>This field is to equal <c>ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MINOR_VERSION</c> if
          field <c>extended_marker</c> equals
          <c>ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MARKER</c>.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="driver_flags"/><c>int driver_flags</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>This field is used to pass driver capability and other
          information to the runtime system. If
          field <c>extended_marker</c> equals <c>ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MARKER</c>,
          it is to contain <c>0</c> or driver flags (<c>ERL_DRV_FLAG_*</c>)
          OR'ed bitwise. The following driver flags exist:</p>
        <taglist>
          <tag><c>ERL_DRV_FLAG_USE_PORT_LOCKING</c></tag>
          <item>
            <p>The runtime system uses port-level locking on
              all ports executing this driver instead of driver-level
              locking when the driver is run in a runtime
              system with SMP support. For more information, see
              <seealso marker="erl_driver#smp_support">
              <c>erl_driver</c></seealso>.</p>
          </item>
          <tag><c>ERL_DRV_FLAG_SOFT_BUSY</c></tag>
          <item>
            <p>Marks that driver instances can handle being called
              in the <seealso marker="#output"><c>output</c></seealso> and/or
              <seealso marker="#outputv"><c>outputv</c></seealso> callbacks
              although a driver instance has marked itself as busy (see
              <seealso marker="erl_driver#set_busy_port">
              <c>erl_driver:set_busy_port</c></seealso>).
              As from ERTS 5.7.4 this flag is required for drivers used
              by the Erlang distribution (the behavior has always been
              required by drivers used by the distribution).</p>
          </item>
          <tag><c>ERL_DRV_FLAG_NO_BUSY_MSGQ</c></tag>
          <item>
            <p>Disables busy port message queue functionality. For
              more information, see
              <seealso marker="erl_driver#erl_drv_busy_msgq_limits">
              <c>erl_driver:erl_drv_busy_msgq_limits</c></seealso>.</p>
          </item>
          <tag><c>ERL_DRV_FLAG_USE_INIT_ACK</c></tag>
          <item>
            <p>When this flag is specified, the linked-in driver must manually
              acknowledge that the port has been successfully started using
              <seealso marker="erl_driver#erl_drv_init_ack">
              <c>erl_driver:erl_drv_init_ack()</c></seealso>.
              This allows the implementor to make the
              <c>erlang:open_port</c> exit with <c>badarg</c> after some
              initial asynchronous initialization has been done.</p>
          </item>
        </taglist>
      </item>
      <tag><c>void *handle2</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>This field is reserved for the emulator's internal use. The
          emulator modifies this field, so it is important
          that the <c>driver_entry</c> is not declared <c>const</c>.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="process_exit"/>
        <c>void (*process_exit)(ErlDrvData drv_data, ErlDrvMonitor *monitor)</c>
      </tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called when a monitored process exits. The
          <c>drv_data</c> is the data associated with the port for which
          the process is monitored (using
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_monitor_process">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_monitor_process</c></seealso>)
          and the <c>monitor</c> corresponds to the <c>ErlDrvMonitor</c>
          structure filled
          in when creating the monitor. The driver interface function
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_get_monitored_process">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_get_monitored_process</c></seealso>
          can be used to retrieve the process ID of the exiting process as
          an <c>ErlDrvTermData</c>.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="stop_select"/>
        <c>void (*stop_select)(ErlDrvEvent event, void* reserved)</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Called on behalf of
          <seealso marker="erl_driver#driver_select">
          <c>erl_driver:driver_select</c></seealso>
          when it is safe to close an event object.</p>
        <p>A typical implementation on Unix is to do
          <c>close((int)event)</c>.</p>
        <p>Argument <c>reserved</c> is intended for future use and is to be
          ignored.</p>
        <p>In contrast to most of the other callback functions,
          <c>stop_select</c> is called independent of any port. No
          <c>ErlDrvData</c> argument is passed to the function. No
          driver lock or port lock is guaranteed to be held. The port that
          called <c>driver_select</c> can even be closed at the
          time <c>stop_select</c> is called. But it can also be
          the case that <c>stop_select</c> is called directly by
          <c>erl_driver:driver_select</c>.</p>
        <p>It is not allowed to call any functions in the
          <seealso marker="erl_driver">driver API</seealso> from
          <c>stop_select</c>. This strict limitation is because the
          volatile context that <c>stop_select</c> can be called.</p>
      </item>
    </taglist>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>See Also</title>
    <p><seealso marker="erl_driver"><c>erl_driver(3)</c></seealso>,
      <seealso marker="erlang"><c>erlang(3)</c></seealso>,
      <seealso marker="kernel:erl_ddll"><c>erl_ddll(3)</c></seealso></p>
  </section>
</cref>

