[GTALUG] "Massage Passing" library?
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Sep 13 14:35:58 EDT 2017
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 03:24:25AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> I'm looking for keywords to search for...
>
> I have various local peripherals that I need to read and write. From
> top of my head, I'm thinking 3 ways:
>
> 1. Use select(2) (and friends) to round-robin the peripherals.
poll seems more popular these days than select.
> 2. Each peripheral is serviced by a separate thread, and main thread
> does the business logics. The peripherals don't need to talk to
> each other (but this may change).
>
> 3. Each peripheral is serviced by a separate process, and they pass
> "messages". This option is what I want to investigate.
>
> So, do you know any "message-passing" scheme, framework, or library that
> I can look up? I'm not talking about OS or kernel level. More at
> application level.
Processes don't get to do anything without OS/kernel support. If you
use seperate processes, you will need to use something from the OS/kernel
to pass messages.
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Len Sorensen
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