On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:48:25 -0400, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote: > >There are lots of ways to do this. Some of the questions you have to first >ask are: 1) Are the tasks asynchronous to each other? 2) Can there be more >than one slave task? 3) What are you attempting to accomplish with sub tasks? > Can POSIX pipes be used to communicate among tasks/subtasks? The important question is, if one task blocks on a read, does the whole job block?
(I've used pipes to implement some crude dispatching in shell. These were named pipes because shell doesn't provide adequate pipe primitives. C, Rexx, and Assembler do better.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
