This sort of thing is exactly the rationale for extensible schemas such as you get from JSON, Avro or protobufs.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Travis Crawford <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The simplest (though probably least acceptable in most cases) solution is > to > > put the process host and pid into the ephemeral file in some form. > > > > To close the loop... I ended up doing exactly this. The app already > ... Thanks for the pointers, y'all! Not a general solution but works well > in this case. Another way to look at this is to say that the solution is incredibly general (you can have your bytes, your way).
