From: Jonathan Paisley <jp-www@...>
Date: 2006-03-25T22:03:09+09:00
Subject: Re: drb over pipes

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:30:00 +0900, Reto Schuettel wrote:

> There's one small problem with your fdsocket, it seems like the drb
> server/thread doesn't always terminate itself when the streams get
> closed. But I will try to investigate this by myself tomorrow :).

I encountered that too; hence all those exception handlers and calls to
exit. I worked around it by ensuring that my code made periodic calls
across the DRb connection --- this would trigger an exception. Otherwise,
I ended up with loads of server processes doing nothing.

I'd be interested to hear if you've figured out how to get notification of
the socket closing.

> I've appended an example which uses your library. It creates two pipes,
> forks, connects the pipes to the stdin/stdout of the child and then execs
> the ssh client. The same technique could also be used to communicate
> with a child (instead of a unix/tcp socket or a simple plain pipe). IMHO
> that's really nice, great work Jonathan!

I should have included an example with my code --- although it turns out
now that mine is practically the same as yours (I too am using ssh
transport). Sorry for omitting the extra code...

Jonathan