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Auteur: Edward Bartolo
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Aan: dr.klepp
CC: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)
Hi,

Thanks for the reply. If Unix Domain Sockets can do the job nicely,
why not? However, I will wait for other replies for their opinion.

Thanks.

On 02/09/2015, dr.klepp@??? <dr.klepp@???> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2015 schrieb Edward Bartolo:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I think, I found an alternative to multithreading in netman. This is
>> using interprocess communication, although what I have in mind may not
>> be proper interprocess communication.
>>
>> The idea is this: the backend would be converted into some sort of a
>> daemon exporting one function and importing another one. The frontend
>> would use the exported function from the backend to send it commands.
>> The backend would do the same thing with the exported function from
>> the frontend:
>>
>> Visually, this is as follows:
>>
>> Frontend -------------->> Backend
>> Frontend <<-------------- Backend
>>
>> In my humble opinion, this may help getting rid of having to use
>> multithreading to avoid temporary frontend deadlocks. It also solves
>> the issue with zombies being created, and would permit me create a
>> responsive application but using the KISS principle.
>>
>>
>> Edward
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> What about using unix domain sockets and a cleartext protocol?
>
> Nik
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