about daemons and IPC

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Sunday 27/8/2006 00:01, sdistefano at gmail.com wrote:

>Hey people!
>For the first time I'm doing a client/server application, and I'm
>really confused with IPC stuff.
>
>I read the fastest method is shared memory, but I tryed mmap and found
>it tedious for the amount of data I'm handling (which is 30K at most,
>but mmap seems to get tedious for anything bigger than a boolean... am
>I missing something?)

I'm a bit confused - you mean client/server running both on the same 
machine, right? Else, shared memory is of no use.
Sockets are used, usually, but depends on your needs.

>Then I found many solutions for forked processes (like posh), but
>that's not what I need right now.

Perhaps you can tell what you are trying to do...?


Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	
	
		
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