On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 09:07:26AM -0700, Daniel Austin <daniel.r.aus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Marc. Thank you for responding. I did a little investigation on your > comment about fds being useless to other processes and did not know they > were process-unique. Thanks for stopping me early. Your suggestion of a > pipe looks like it will be the fastest (to implement) approach. Would I > simply have each watcher process ev_io watch the fifo for readable event,
A pipe is not a (linux-) fifo, but you can use an ev_io watcher in every process on fifo or pipe fd's alike. > the writer process puts a byte into the fifo, all the watcher processes get > the readable event and wake up and non-block read to empty the pipe (one > succeeds), do their respective tasks, and then repeat? Thanks very much. That's one way to do it - make sure you handle the case where the pipe is full gracefully, though (e.g. by not blocking your writer, or ensuring that this a non-issue). -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / schm...@schmorp.de -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ libev mailing list libev@lists.schmorp.de http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/libev