On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 09:07:26AM -0700, Daniel Austin
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> Hi, Marc. Thank you for responding. I did a little investigation on your
> comment about fds being useless to other processes and did not know they
> were process-unique. Thanks for stopping me early. Your suggestion of a
> pipe looks like it will be the fastest (to implement) approach. Would I
> simply have each watcher process ev_io watch the fifo for readable event,
A pipe is not a (linux-) fifo, but you can use an ev_io watcher in every
process on fifo or pipe fd's alike.
> the writer process puts a byte into the fifo, all the watcher processes get
> the readable event and wake up and non-block read to empty the pipe (one
> succeeds), do their respective tasks, and then repeat? Thanks very much.
That's one way to do it - make sure you handle the case where the pipe is
full gracefully, though (e.g. by not blocking your writer, or ensuring
that this a non-issue).
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