From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-11T15:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Communicate with a daemon

On 10.05.2009 23:22, Paul A. wrote:
> After daemonize a Ruby process (thanks Ruby version 1.9), it is possible
> to communicate with on the same machine by using socket on localhost. Do
> you know some other methods instead of socket?

You have got the whole range of IPC at your fingertips

- named FIFO,
- unnamed FIFO if the client is a child process of your daemon,
- Unix domain socket (only on the local machine),
- signals,
- shared memory (with proper locking, e.g. via semaphores),
...

Kind regards

	robert

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