On 6/18/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evan Klitzke wrote: > ........ > > > > > Another method that you can use is to open up a socket on some > > predetermined port (presumably above 1024), and then have your program > > try to connect to that port and "talk" to the other program to > > determine whether or not to run (or whether to do some of the > > remaining work, etc.). > > > > that might work, but this runs on someone's java solaris box with possible > many > connections going on. I doubt I'd be able to guarantee a particular port. > -- > Robin Becker
If you can run long-lived processes, you can write a small daemon that runs on a particular port forever and use that to establish a port that the other scripts can use. Of course now the solution is getting a bit more complicated than you probably want... -- Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
