Thanks for the idea, Unfortunatly that wouldnt for my scenario. I have a dollop of XML that I want to send up to the parent and have it broadcast to all the children. That XML dollop comprises of various custom data and the parent just needs to act as a relay for all the children.
- Dan > If you have a very limited number of messages that could be passed, you > could use signals. For example, child 1 would send a signal to the > parent, and the parent would then signal all of the other children. > > If you have more complex messages that need to be passed, that won't > work, of course. > > Dan Hardiker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Thanks Daniel for your excellent input. I have managed to create a >> forking socket handler, although I am now approched by a new issue. >> How do I get the sockets to communication to each other? >> >> There are several work arounds that I could implement but Im going out >> on a limb and hoping that there is some standard / normal way of doing >> this. Here is my situation: >> >> I initate a parent process which creates a child when a client comes >> along. Another client comes along and another child is created. >> >> I can process and parse the input from the children individually but >> when upon a certain command being sent by child 1, I want *all* the >> children to be issued a command. >> >> How would I broach this? I need any child to be able to communicate >> with any (or all) other children. >> >> Thanks in advance >> > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Dan Hardiker [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ADAM Software & Systems Engineer First Creative Ltd -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
