What about multithreading? Should I do away with it and let the frontend monitor for zombies to call waitpid?
Edward On 02/09/2015, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 11:47:34 +0100 > Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I think, I found an alternative to multithreading in netman. This is >> using interprocess communication, although what I have in mind may not >> be proper interprocess communication. >> >> The idea is this: the backend would be converted into some sort of a >> daemon exporting one function and importing another one. The frontend >> would use the exported function from the backend to send it commands. >> The backend would do the same thing with the exported function from >> the frontend: >> >> Visually, this is as follows: >> >> Frontend -------------->> Backend >> Frontend <<-------------- Backend >> >> In my humble opinion, this may help getting rid of having to use >> multithreading to avoid temporary frontend deadlocks. It also solves >> the issue with zombies being created, and would permit me create a >> responsive application but using the KISS principle. > > I like it. A lot! > > IMHO the front end should do nothing but display ESSIDs with strength > and encryption, letting you click on the one you want or right click > and say "turn off" to turn it off. > > If you've already dealt with that ESSID, the back end has the password > and uses it to join that ESSID. If the back end hasn't dealt with it, > it sends the front end a message saying "get me the password", the > front end queries the user for the password, and the front end sends it > back to the back end. Assuming one user, this doesn't even have to be > stateful, but if it has to be stateful, there are a million ways to do > it. > > I like it! > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts > http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng