On Nov 2, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:54 AM, Israel Brewster <isr...@ravnalaska.net> wrote: >> I have a Flask/UWSGI web app that serves up web socket connections. When a >> web socket connection is created, I want to store a reference to said web >> socket so I can do things like write messages to every connected >> socket/disconnect various sockets/etc. UWSGI, however, launches multiple >> child processes which handle incoming connections, so the data structure >> that stores the socket connections needs to be shared across all said >> processes. How can I do this? >> > > You're basically going to need to have a single process that manages > all the socket connections. Do you actually NEED multiple processes to > do your work? If you can do it with multiple threads in a single > process, you'll be able to share your socket info easily. Otherwise, > you could have one process dedicated to managing the websockets, and > all the others message that process saying "please send this to all > processes".
Ok, that makes sense, but again: it's UWSGI that creates the processes, not me. I'm not creating *any* processes or threads. Aside from telling UWSGI to only use a single worker, I have no control over what happens where. But maybe that's what I need to do? > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
