On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, al davis wrote: >One feature I would like to see is the ability to immediately >pass updates to a running gschem. > >This would involve opening a pipe between the two programs, and >passing the update as a message. With a pair of pipes it could >go both ways. >
<snip> I would suggest using sockets instead of pipes if you want two-way communication between the two processes. There's no much difference between using UNIX domain sockets (AF_LOCAL) and TCP/IP on code level, but UNIX domain sockets are usually as fast as pipes. This means once you implement sockets instead of pipes, it will become much easier to change it from local sockets to TCP/IP which opens up possibilites like clustering, remote simulation, etc. Igor2 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user