Re: Non-GUI, single processort inter process massaging - how?

2018-07-24 Thread Chris Green
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:14:22 +0100, Chris Green declaimed the > following: > > >Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > >> > >> If your update frequency is low enough that it wont kill the filesystem > >> and > >> the amount of data is reasonably small, atomic writes to a

Re: Non-GUI, single processort inter process massaging - how?

2018-07-23 Thread Chris Green
Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > På Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:07:23 +0100 > Chris Green skrev: > > > So - what's the best approach to this? I've done some searching and > > most/many of the solutions seem rather heavyweight for my needs. Am I > > overlooking something obvious or should I try rethinking

Re: Non-GUI, single processort inter process massaging - how?

2018-07-23 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
På Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:07:23 +0100 Chris Green skrev: > So - what's the best approach to this? I've done some searching and > most/many of the solutions seem rather heavyweight for my needs. Am I > overlooking something obvious or should I try rethinking the original > requirement and look for

Re: Non-GUI, single processort inter process massaging - how?

2018-07-22 Thread Jan Claeys
On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 11:50 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Each client would use the urllib (various names between v2 > and v3) to submit requests to the server, and process the returned > "page". Or the client could even be a bash script using curl, or any other HTTP client... --

Re: Non-GUI, single processort inter process massaging - how?

2018-07-21 Thread Chris Green
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:07:23 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > [...] > > I want to be able to interrogate the server process from several client > > processes, some will interrogate it multiple times, others once only. > > They are mostly (all?) run from the command line

Re: Non-GUI, single processort inter process massaging - how?

2018-07-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:07:23 +0100, Chris Green wrote: [...] > I want to be able to interrogate the server process from several client > processes, some will interrogate it multiple times, others once only. > They are mostly (all?) run from the command line (bash). This sounds like a good

Non-GUI, single processort inter process massaging - how?

2018-07-21 Thread Chris Green
I have a need to allow short-lived 'client' processes to interrogate a single long-lived 'server' process on a small system (specifically a BeagleBone Black). The server process reads values from external hardware and this needs to be done by a single process to ensure that it works as intended