Hi, Marc. Thank you for responding. I did a little investigation on your
comment about fds being useless to other processes and did not know they
were process-unique. Thanks for stopping me early. Your suggestion of a
pipe looks like it will be the fastest (to implement) approach. Would I
simply have each watcher process ev_io watch the fifo for readable event,
the writer process puts a byte into the fifo, all the watcher processes get
the readable event and wake up and non-block read to empty the pipe (one
succeeds), do their respective tasks, and then repeat? Thanks very much.
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 7:28 AM, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 10:03:32PM -0700, Daniel Austin <
> daniel.r.aus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi. What is the proper mechanism to trigger an event in a separate
> > process, not a separate thread, assuming a modern Linux kernel?
> >
> > 1) Use ev_io on an eventfd file descriptor. Use normal eventfd file
>
> That, or a pipe, are the most reasonable options. Which one is faster
> depends very much on the application.
>
> > "register" with the triggering process, but they do need to get access to
> > the file description number somehow (e.g. shared memory or other means).
>
> The fd number is useless in another process - you cna pass file
> descriptions to other pürocesses with file descriptor passing via a unix
> domain socket, though, or inheriting using fork for example.
>
> > 2) Use ev_async. I think the proper usage here would be to put the
>
> ev_async cannot be used for this purpose.
>
> > 3) Something else?
>
> Use inotify to watch for file changes. There are some other mechanisms,
> but for general event handling, you want a pipe or something like eventfd.
>
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