Re: forked process exiting before output read

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> On 31/07/07, muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote:
>> With some very minor changes, i get this example to work just fine.
>> (No need to go dorking around with the insanity of threads... ;-)
>
> Thanks!

No problem.  I can never resist the challenge of figuring out how to do
something without a thread when a thread is not really warranted.  ;-)


>> If small lines of text are what you have, you might actually want to
>> use datagram sockets, because you'll get guaranteed delivery of
>> entire messages.
>
> Never heard of those before, but google is my friend.

AF_UNIX + SOCK_DGRAM works nicely as a select()able replacement for those
crappy SysV message queues, and even the POSIX message queues that you still
can't use with select().  ;-)


> Do I need to worry about the flags in send and recv?

Not really; they seem to be for more esoteric uses.


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