Great, thanks for the info on base/poll.jl
On Sunday, June 15, 2014 9:21:29 PM UTC-4, Jameson wrote: > > It's is unclear what you are asking for. > > The Julia Base library includes a high-performance, cross-platform > framework for responding to file change events on disk. (see base/poll.jl) > > Interprocess communication is done through the creation of a named pipe. > (see base/spawn.jl for examples) > > popen is unrelated to fork, select, or file notification. although the > equivalent call in julia is more object-based, around the Cmd object and > backtick (`) notation, and functions such as run, spawn, and open > > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Alireza Nejati <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> It's my impression that to do this sort of stuff you should use Julia's >> built-in process creation/communication facilities. Have a look at this >> page: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.1/manual/parallel-computing/ >> >> >> On Monday, June 16, 2014 10:57:28 AM UTC+12, Aerlinger wrote: >>> >>> I'm writing a package to allow a Julia program to asynchronously listen >>> and respond to file change events on disk, but I've hit a bit of a >>> stumbling block. I need a way to fork a Julia process and have it listen to >>> specific OS system calls such as select, and then notify the parent process >>> of the event. This is sometimes called 'popen' in other languages ( >>> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.2/IO.html#method-c-popen). I'm aware >>> that there are a bunch of functions for handling general IO ( >>> http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#i-o) but they don't >>> quite give me the control and interprocess communication that I'm looking >>> for. There was also a short discussion about this a couple of years ago: >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-dev/l-4HLYX2qSI. Was >>> wondering if there have been any developments or if anyone else has some >>> insight on this capability. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> >
