Re: Inter process communication

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Alejandro Saez (cano++at++krusty.engr.sgi.com)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:59:53 -0600

On Nov 6, 8:43am, Joaquin Casillas Melendez wrote:
> Subject: Inter process communication
> Hello all.
>
> I need to pass data between a performer process and other that has
> nothing to do with performer. I have thought about using messages queues
> between both procesess, with the inter process communication library of
> Unix System V. The problem is that I haven't found the library installed
> in my machine, and don't know if the library is part of the OS dist
> cd's.
> A think that REACT system also have functions (POSIX compliance) that
> can manage messages queues and shared memory.
>
> I would appreciate if someone could tell me where are located the SysV
> IPC libraries, or if Irix React functions are appropiate to do inter
> procesess communication stuff. Other suggestions on using another
> approaches(such as shared mem, etc), will be welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>

Joaquin,

Why don't u use the IRIX IPC routines. I'm not sure,please someone confirm or
deny, but I even think it's what Performer uses for IPC. Do a man on usinit, it
has all the functionality of your regular IPC package (shared memory,
semaphores, barriers, locks, etc) and I understand it is somewhat faster than
System V IPC. The other thing one can always use is BSD Sockets, the neat thing
is that some day in the future you could take your unrelated process and run it
anywhere in the network (given enough bw) and it will work without a single
change in the source code.

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