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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> 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.

I never meant to imply that; I just hoped that by pointing you to some 
existing code, I could stop you from spending time on something which 
already exists.

Of course, time spent learning APIs is never wasted :)

Michael.