>
> > I know its a bit of a pain and some would say this old dog should learn new
> > IPC tricks (and I have) but after 10 years of code writing using the SRR
> > (send/receive/reply) paradigm, and having never been able to write an application
> > that has brought the system down I need a lot of convincing. In addition the
> > code written has been designed in a modular fashion very quickly and almost
> > always works 'first go'.
>
> heh, yep I did some work with the L4 microkernel for my eng. thesis, which
> has similar blocking IPC. It certainly ensured clean code with well defined
> interfaces. I was tempted to do a similar IPC module for Linux then too.
> Maybe someone has already done one? Could be interesting ...
There is a package done by FC Software called 'SIMPL' (synchronous interprocess
message passing)
They did their stuff in user-space and based it around fifo's. It also handled
message passing accross the network which was pretty nice, but it did suffer
performance problems. (having to copy messages to/from the fifo's while having to use
other code to synchronise the whole thing)
Regards,
Andrew E.
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