[fpc-pascal] Inter-process communication, a cautionary tale

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>>
>>> No need to apologize, I'm just curious where you got your info from. 
>>> The implementation has been the same since day 1, which means your 
>>> statement puzzles me.
>>>
>>> So instead of re-inventing the wheel, maybe have a closer look again 
>>> at the
>>> standard IPC mechanisms.
>>
>> I will do, but I do note that 
>> http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/ipc/index.html explicitly 
>> says that "It works only on the linux operating system". Where's the 
>> source- I can only see ./fpcsrc/rtl/unix/ipc.pp
> 
> I meant the SimpleIPC unit from the FCL:
> http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/fcl/simpleipc/index.html

Because I was exploring various unix-domain socket aspects including 
mtu, where they're put, how to recover if an inactive one's already 
there (e.g. gdb failure) and so on. And in particular I was exploring 
naming issues that were being fouled up by things like Mozilla, trying 
to find some balance between the name of the project (known at 
compilation time) and the name of the executable after this sort of 
thing had caused a lot of local hassle.

So I think you've done better having something that is portable and is 
coded fairly elegantly, but I don't think that I've gratuitously 
reinvented the wheel.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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