OpenEuphoria

Re: Threads vs Processes

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> May 05, 2005
• 504 views

On 5/4/05, Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> I would like to avoid using the Windows API calls since I would like m=
y
> >> programs to still work in Linux.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to implement this without threads?
> >
> > Yes, there is.
> > Unfortunately, not within Euphoria itself.
> >
> > There's a library called IPC that allows you to make procedure and
> > function calls across euphoria programs. Procedure calls are
> > asynchronous, function calls are synchronous.
>
> You probably mean "ipc.zip" by Thomas Parslow, don't you?
> It's only for windows.

Well yes, it's only for windows. I've been meaning to start working on
an inter-process communication system based on sockets, so it'll be
cross-platform. Should hopefully be able to scale up to any computer
on the subnet too, so that'll be interesting.

However, I'm a bit snowed under with work at the moment, so it might
take a while.


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MrTrick
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