Jose, you are writing a stand-alone program in C, which you call from
the command line? In that case, why would you ever need nsv? Nsv is
for sharing data between threads in AOLserver. What does your command
line C program do? Is this still for the "load many courses and users
into OpenACS from an external database" problem that you opened this
thread with? If so I don't see why you'd be doing any C coding at all
for that.
I think the following is not useful for Jose's application, but just
in case:
If on the other hand you're writing an AOLserver module in C, you may
have noticed that AOLserver provides no C API to nsv, only a Tcl API.
However, it is fortunately not too difficult to add an efficient C NSV
API. I have done so and use it myself, although I never packaged it
up for release. (Which means if someone actually needs it, let me
know.)
If you are writing a non-AOLserver multi-threaded program and miss the
AOLserver Nsv API, you are in luck, just use the Tcl Threads Extension
with tclsh. It's tsv api is just like nsv only better. Last time I
looked tsv also has only a Tcl API no C; I never tried to add a C API
to it but presumably it should also be feasible.
