On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:53:29 -0400 "Sam Carleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:43 PM, ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What might be better for you is to add this to a queue, perhaps via > > means of a unix socket (or IP socket) of another process, that > > does this work. > > Actually today the program is only Windows and in time will be > Windows, Linux and OSX (aka BSD). After posting I had a feeling that > a daemon (Windows NT Service) would be the most likely approach. The > only remaining question is: How best to let the daemon process know > it is time to grab the task from Apache. In Windows there are named > Event Object > (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682655(VS.85).aspx) so > the Apache Server can set the event and the daemon know it needs to > get the new task from Apache. Does the Linux/BSD world have > something like named Events? Linux IPC is sockets, semaphores and pipes. Personally, using the filesystem might be portable enough for you. Leave a file in /tmp/apache_messagenam_pid.tmp. Once the file writing is complete, move the file to /tmp/apache_messagenam_pid so your collector program can read the full message. This doesn't require sockets or anything that should make portability a problem. -- The GameCube is errored because of a translator who speaks Bocce. R2D2 is having Robert Mann to write some scripts. :: http://www.s5h.net/ :: http://www.s5h.net/gpg.html
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