Re: Message-passing via local ports
- Posted by katsmeow Feb 02, 2021
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It's possible, several people have done it, between programs, between languages and operating systems, between computers on a lan, and across the internet. There's rudimentary win and nix "chat" programs that exchange "data" in the archives from many years ago. I submitted code to use socks connecting Eu to Mirc decades ago, both localhost and across the lan, and was roundly denounced.
If you are favorable to those "in charge", you will beome the deity of choice, else you will be ridiculed and forgotten. I don't even volunteer code any more (see irc.e , and the http.e-tasks-news.ex fiasco).
My "claim to fame" would be i hooked the type system to make sharing happen with only the one keyword. I used IPC, thinking it was faster, but i did no speed tests. I also was/am leery of the OS blocking on winsock calls in compiled OE, although this is not a problem running interpreted with tasks.e.
Good lucks to you.
Kat
