On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:14:23 +0100, Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 Sep 2004, at 23:31, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > I haven't had a chance to read through all the comments in this thread > > yet, > > but I'll point out two flies in the ointment: > > > > 1. Many database API's don't offer access to the filehandle. > > > > 2. Even for those that do, just because the filehandle becomes > > 'readable' > > doesn't mean that the appropriate API function call won't block. > > So it doesn't have to be the filehandle that is connected across the > network. It could be a pipe that you write to when stuff is ready. This > would be compatible with either local or remote systems.
No - as I said previously, file descriptors (whether pipe, socket, file or anything else) are not the only mechanism used to achieve IPC - interprocess communication. -- Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2003.04 - http://dbi.perl.org "I don't suffer from insanity - I enjoy every minute of it."
