[fpc-devel] simpleipc under Linux

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> SimpleIPC under Linux always creates the pipe file under /tmp/.
>
> packages/fcl-process/src/unix/simpleipc.inc
>
> constructor TPipeClientComm.Create(AOWner: TSimpleIPCClient);
>
> Var
>  D : String;
>
> begin
>  inherited Create(AOWner);
>  FFileName:=Owner.ServerID;
>  If (Owner.ServerInstance<>'') then
>    FFileName:=FFileName+'-'+Owner.ServerInstance;
>  D:='/tmp/'; // Change to something better later
>  FFileName:=D+FFileName;
> end;
>
> Can this be made optional, for example to this:
>
> constructor TPipeClientComm.Create(AOWner: TSimpleIPCClient);
>
> begin
>  inherited Create(AOWner);
>  FFileName:=Owner.ServerID;
>  If (Owner.ServerInstance<>'') then
>    FFileName:=FFileName+'-'+Owner.ServerInstance;
>  if FFileName[1]<>'/' then
>    FFileName:='/tmp/'+FFileName;
> end;
>
>
> Should I create a mantis issue?

Yes. 
I planned in fact 2 modes: global, and local. Local was meant to be user-specific.

Since then I think using d-bus is the better approach. 
I have components that enable communication through d-bus. 
You can't find a linux box without it anyway (don't know about BSDs or Darwin)

Michael.