connecting two process through a socket

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Donn Cave wrote:
  Did something go wrong when you tried it?
> I don't get what this has to do with the pid of the first daemon.
The pid is used to store (log) data to files. The problem I had was
spawning a thread that would be able to read that data as this would
required the pid. But, I solved this by resorting to global data --
even though I was trying to avoid this.