Interprocess communication on multi-user machine

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <44a41cae$0$29145$9b4e6d93 at newsread4.arcor-online.net>,
Michael Butscher <mbutscher at gmx.de> writes:
|> 
|> this is not really Python-specific but I need it for Python.
|> 
|> I'm wanting a method for interprocess communication which is OS-
|> independent (sockets would be the normal way to go), but which works if 
|> multiple users use the machine at the same time so that one user has no 
|> access to the communication of programs of another user.

You're onto a complete loser if you really mean that.  But you are
probably meaning Unix-like systems (including Microsoft ones), and
excluding the systems that are not based on or largely cloned from
Unix.  You should look at the POSIX facilities, but don't rely on
them without checking.

Also think very carefully whether you want to separate by user or
job - the latter is trickier under Unix.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.