Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Monday 19 August 2002 2:30 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> | Anyway, I'm perfectly happy to use named sockets rather than pipes, but >> | AFAICS there is still a problem. If I'm an external program, how do I >> | find out the /name/ of this named socket if LyX is going to have many of >> | them. Without this info I can't even start. >> >> .lyx/server-socket.1234 >> .lyx/server-socket.4634 >> .lyx/server-socket.P >> >> Every instance of LyX will only have _one_ socket. > | This seems reasonable. It looks to me like we can use André's pipestream | class today. Excellent. Future Windows support will follow by enhancing | Pipestream. LyX will know nothing about it. > | As a bit of fun, a shell client would presumably ascertain which LyX socket | to connect to like this (below).
Remember that a socket could be stale... -- Lgb