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From: tm3an@itoe-02.uucp (Arnar Nesset)
Subject: (Q) BSD sockets - how to handle properly
Message-ID: <1994Jun27.132141.19137@nntp.nta.no>
Keywords: socket, IPC
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 94 13:21:41 GMT
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I got no reply as to the necessity of using sockets to achieve IPC on
my Sun on SunOS 4.1.2. I had hoped there was an easier way, as I do have
a rather easy task: I start one program, which will do its business for a
couple of minutes, and then hibernate, awaiting a message from program
number two, which effectively should tell program one to start something.
Now I've developed two small test programs, which talk to each other through
a socket. According to the article from which I stole much of the code,
one needs to fork off child processes to handle calls from multiple
processes. Am I doing anything wrong if I skip this child process thing
and just process requests as they arrive? After all, there is only one
program from which I expect input.
Thanks for replies via email,
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(o) (o) Arnar
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