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Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute (SOLVED)

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Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> My current approach is to use named pipes intead, where the server
> blockingly reads on a "main" pipe (opened just like a plain file).
>
> Clients first create a new pair of named pipes, and pass the names to
> the server, who in response creates a new thread to communicate over
> those pipes and serve client's task that way.

I've now settled on this approach.

> This is somewhat awkward (especially cleaning up of stale named pipes),
> and named pipes do not prohibit two readers erroneously on the same pipe.

I found a solution for keeping the number of stale pipes low enough.
The trick is to delete them as soon as they're opened by both sides.
If a process dies abruptly during its pay-work, then the pipes are
already cleaned up.

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java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-03 17:26 +0000
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2014-09-03 13:36 -0400
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2014-09-04 07:42 +0000
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-04 07:52 +0000
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-04 09:45 +0200
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-04 09:14 +0000
      Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-05 10:20 +0200
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2014-09-04 08:34 +0000
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-05 01:06 +0000
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2014-09-04 11:35 +0100
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-04 15:11 +0100
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2014-09-04 15:57 +0100
      Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-04 16:21 +0100
        Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-05 10:55 +0000
  Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute (SOLVED) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-09-05 00:53 +0000
    Re: java unix domain sockets ... or substitute (SOLVED) Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-05 10:23 +0200

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