> Am 12.02.2017 um 17:56 schrieb Hans Hagen <[email protected]>: > > On 2/11/2017 3:04 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a bit of a vague question about inter process communication. The >> setup is a program written in Go (but that should not matter very much) that >> starts one LuaTeX process as a child. Supported systems are Linux, Windows >> and Mac. Now I would like to talk between the parent process (Go) and the >> child process (LuaTeX) such as: >> >> parent: "Hello child, please do this" >> child: "hi parent, I have done this, here is the result" >> >> and so on. >> >> What is the cleanest way to do this? I used to do that over TCP sockets >> (talking on a defined port on the local host), but this does not seem as the >> optimal solution. For example on Windows I get a "firewall warning" that the >> user has to click away. >> >> Any idea on that topic? > > use sockets (socket library is present)
Do you mean TCP sockets or unix sockets? If the second: is this well supported by windows? I can't really find a documentation on that. Patrick
