In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>|> >
>|> >Sockets are often accessed via special files, but are not files.
>|>
>|> They are files. They are not _regular_ files.
>
>Yes, I k
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> >
|> >Sockets are often accessed via special files, but are not files.
|>
|> They are files. They are not _regular_ files.
Sigh. Firstly, look at something like:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>|> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>|> Michael Butscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>|>
>|> >Normally any user could connect to an open sock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Butscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>
|> this is not really Python-specific but I need it for Python.
|>
|> I'm wanting a method for interprocess communication which is OS-
|> independent (sockets would be the normal way to go), but which works if
|> mu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
|> Michael Butscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|>
|> >Normally any user could connect to an open socket on a machine
|> >regardless which user established the socket (the user's pr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Butscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Normally any user could connect to an open socket on a machine
>regardless which user established the socket (the user's program, to be
>precise).
That's not true. On *nix systems, a socket is a file, and is subject
Michael Butscher wrote:
> I'm wanting a method for interprocess communication which is OS-
> independent (sockets would be the normal way to go), but which works if
> multiple users use the machine at the same time so that one user has no
> access to the communication of programs of another user.
Hi,
this is not really Python-specific but I need it for Python.
I'm wanting a method for interprocess communication which is OS-
independent (sockets would be the normal way to go), but which works if
multiple users use the machine at the same time so that one user has no
access to the communi
