[Tutor] demon / app I/F better way ?

[Dave S]

> Running the demon as a seperate thread is a good idea, I had not 
> thought of that, I was going to 'demon.py &' it - which must be pretty 
> inefficient.
>
> Queueing the data, like a FIFO buffer, that negates the need for  
> /data/data_flag, if its read, its gone - thats elegent -  I like that 
> :-) . I could write a script that implements a FIFO function - or 
> maybe I will find one in the vaults.


Just found one, and an interesting thread 
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/68436

>
> As to using a socket, I have only encounterd passing references to 
> them mainly when tweeking the linux kernel , Can you point me in the 
> direction of how you can use them in Python ... ?
>
> Cheers
> Dave