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- From: ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Organizing rendez-vous between processes
- Keywords: networking, sockets, ipc
- Message-ID: <125@eiffel.eiffel.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 20:05:53 GMT
- Sender: ram@eiffel.com
- Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
- Lines: 25
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- Hello wizards,
-
- I'd like to organize a rendez-vous between two processes located on
- different machines connected on an IP network. I am aware that setting
- up an entry in /etc/services would solve this rendez-vous, but that
- is precisely what I cannot do.
-
- How does X solve this problem? Any X client may specify a remote display,
- and that client has to find the remote X socket without having anything
- registered at a well known port. I understand that for local connections,
- a named socket in the AF_UNIX domain can be a rendez-vous point, but with
- the AF_INET domain, you have to specify a port.
-
- Of course, what is relevant here is the way X organizes the communication
- at the IP level, not the interface at the Xlib level. I am not trying to
- build an X application but rather mimic the way X handles network requests
- and connections. And I take X as an example because it seems to be the
- way for me to go, but other approaches are welcome.
-
- I'll post a summary of answers if appropriate. Thank you in advance.
- --
- Raphael Manfredi <ram@eiffel.com>
- Interactive Software Engineering Inc.
- 270 Storke Road, Suite #7 / Tel +1 (805) 685-1006 \
- Goleta, California 93117, USA \ Fax +1 (805) 685-6869 /
-