From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-10-11T06:03:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Inter-Process Messaging

Gary Wright wrote:
> 
> Daniel DeLorme wrote:
>> Right now I can think of some messaging primitives:
>> - TCPServer/TCPSocket
>> - UNIXServer/UNIXSocket (unstable?)
>> - IO.pipe (doesn't need port#)
>> - Process.kill (impossible to send data)
> 
> Not that it would be useful but I guess that if you used
> two different signals (say SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2) then you've
> got a method of communicating a sequence of binary digits
> to another process.  If you've got a reasonably accurate
> way of timing things you could just manage this with a single
> signal because the absence of the signal could be detected.

I smell a ruby quiz: implement drb messaging on top of sigusr[12].

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