On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Michael Lueck <mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com>
wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I was thinking to ask to compare to the pre-ooRexx v4 way of handling
> RXAPI, however...
>
> Moritz Hoffmann wrote:
> > I think a clean solution would be to use UNIX sockets on Linux and
> similar systems. I don't know about Mac or Windows but I'm sure there
> exists something equivalent. Then, each user would have its own
> > instance of the api daemon that is accessible using a socket stored in
> the file system, either the user's home directory or a temporary directory.
> On Linux, various tools use this: tmux stores its
> > socket in /tmp/tmux-$(id -u)/default. Adapting ooRexx to use such a
> schema should be fairly easy.
>
>
> Moritz came up with thoughts in a different alternate direction than
> merely stepping backwards in time.
>
> So, parallel to Moritz's suggestion... Q: Did the old way of handling
> RXAPI actually work better than what we are now dealing with? Any good in
> improving upon the ooRexx v3.2 design in this area of
> the code?
>
>
The pre-4.0 rxapi used named shared memory that had a lot of inherent
stability problems. Because the shared memory used a unique name, it also
suffered from the same problem. I would definitely NOT recommend returning
to that mode of inter-process communication.
Rick
> I am thankful,
>
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