The approach I am working on does not use ports at all. This should get
around a lot of the issues with the current setup.

Rick

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 6:05 PM Rony <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at> wrote:

> Thank you very much, will test it tomorrow when back at the office!
>
> One question: would it also be possible to use a different port in case it
> got taken, despite it being registered fir ooRexx?
>
> Cheers
>
> —-rony
>
> Rony G. Flatscher (mobil/e)
>
> Am 25.11.2018 um 18:26 schrieb Enrico Sorichetti via Oorexx-devel <
> oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
>
>
> I have just started work on a solution that no longer requires a single
> daemon for the platform but rather use a single process per Rexx user.
> Right now, I'm working on refactoring the code a bit to make it easier to
> plug in different management schemes, and the next step will be to convert
> Windows, which is the version that will require the most new code, then
> will address the *ix variants after that. I'll need so assistance from
> somebody on that step as I don't have a Linux setup any more. When this is
> all done, all of this daemon stuff, including the writing of the PID files
> should go away and things will get a lot simpler.
>
>
> As already told the only reason rxapi needs to be run as sudo is that it
> writes to /var/run
>
> I have already - in my sandbox - modified rxapi
> To get the OOREXX_PIDFILE environment variable and use it
> I use export OOREXX_PIDFILE=/tmp/ooRexx.pid
>
> And since SysLocalAPIManager starts the rxapi process
> Nothing has to be done
>
> I have been running for a few days with this setup and everything works as
> a charm
>
> I run successfully the test suite ( the native api section needs a few
> adjustments )
> rexx testOORexx -s -X native_api with 0 errors
>
> I was able also  to build a fully relocatable binary that can run from a
> usb stick with just a couple of exports
> The new PATH for the bin directory of rexx, the NLSPATH for the rexx.cat
> and the OOREXX_PIDFILE  for the rxapi thing
>
> I have sent my binaries to P.O and Rony to have a confirmation of my
> findings
> As soon as they confirm I will post a patch for wider testing
>
> Cheers
>
> Enrico
>
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