Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:07:45 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: anyone ever done multicast AF_UNIX sockets? |
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David S. Miller wrote: > From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:09:37 -0500 > > Unless you poll for messages on the receiving side, how do you trigger > the receiver to look for a message? > > Send signals. Use a FUTEX, be creative...
Suppose I have a process that waits on UDP packets, the unified local IPC that we're discussing, other unix sockets, and stdin. It's awfully nice if the local IPC can be handled using the same select/poll mechanism as all the other messaging.
Chris
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