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.
On platforms where it's supported -- I assume this includes Solaris -- you can use a UNIX-domain socket to avoid the risk of clashing with network connections. It would be relatively straightforward to fall back to a normal IP socket on Windows; just test for the existence of socket.AF_UNIX. -- David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
