On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 11:31 AM Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > > > I'm curious to hear more about your inter-process transport needs! > > I’d like to have actors running in separate processes on the same > machine. I wouldn’t want them to communicate over Tor or TCP+TLS; > rather, I’d like them to use AF_UNIX sockets, “abstract sockets”, pipes, > socketpairs—one of these local IPC mechanisms. > > My understanding is that there could be an ocapn “netlayer” based on > that. Does that make sense? Is this something you’re considering?
Thanks for clarifying! Yes, we definitely intend to provide local IPC netlayers such as UNIX domain sockets. We actually have a test netlayer that uses UNIX domain sockets, so some of this work has already been done. - Dave
