Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Monday 19 August 2002 1:10 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>> The really great benefit of named sockets/local sockets is that they
>> allow multiple clients. With named pipes you can only have one client
>> at a time.
>
| That's not strictly true. The LyXServer can have many clients so long as they
| supply it with different clientnames. It then communicates with them by
| outputting
| LYXSRV:<clinetname>:<command>:<argument>
| to lyxpipe.out.
Try this:
cd /tmp
mkfifo fifo
cat fifo &
cat fifo &
echo "hello there" > fifo
How many "hello there" do you get?
| However, I take your point if you're saying that (were we to use
| sockets) the client would not have to parse this message to
| ascertain whether it was the intended recipient.
Right.
I always wanted to make the LyXServer a special kind of BufferView.
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Lgb
