Re: XPCOM across processes and machines

[Topics Man]

Rick + all,

I think I might start looking at making XPCOM work across processes as a first
step in looking at all of this (without type library/scripting, to start off
with). Do you think that is realistic?

Of course that means I have to write an in-process proxy, which will do the
communication between processes. Which leads to an immediate question: what is
the preferred way to do efficient cross-platform IPC within the Mozilla design
(I'd do this in my sleep in native Win32 programming, but picking up existing
Mozilla code/libraries and staying cross-platform is the name of the game
here).

Cheers,
Chris.