> That said, when I was suggesting sockets, I was just suggesting > sockets for the need you had specified (and the subject line of this > email message) -- determining if the other process was alive. Using > sdselect on non-blocking sockets seem like a good approach there.
It seemed so for me too. If only to practise working with sockets on something real (but simple). On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, sdasync is nice, and I wish it was supported universally. > > I think that the interpreter changes from j6 to j7 should allow > sdasync to be implemented in a cross platform fashion, though I do not > know if the ide implementations have that in mind or if each ide would > have to be modified to support it. > > That said, when I was suggesting sockets, I was just suggesting > sockets for the need you had specified (and the subject line of this > email message) -- determining if the other process was alive. Using > sdselect on non-blocking sockets seem like a good approach there. > > -- > Raul > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The first thing that strikes me is that sdasync does not work on my >> Mac (though everything else seems to). I see the line: >> >> if. IFUNIX do. 'not implemented under Unix - please use sdselect' >> assert 0 end. >> >> ...which I take to mean that I'll have to call >> sdselect'' periodically to check for data waiting, >> as I'm doing with the mapped files. This is >> no problem for the task in-hand because the listening process is >> already running a duty cycle, and I can slot the sdselect in there. >> >> But it's a pity in general. The big attraction of sockets for >> me is to be able to have process A trigger a callback in >> process B. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
