Re: Question : Broadcast Inter Process Communication ?

[Peter Wächtler]

Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy wrote:
> 
>> >       That's exactly why I don't want to deal with it myself.
>> >       However, the kernel deal with it all the time, and do it
>> > well. For example RtNetlink event have this property (except that they
>> > are kernel => process instead of beeing process => process).
>>
>> By sending one copy of the message to each target. Its how everyone does
>> it except for special cases. Reliable multi-delivery is -hard-
> 
> 
> I was gonna suggest the same thing. Why not just have a simple event 
> server based on unix sockets.
> This server would listen on unix stream socket. Clients interested in 
> events would connect to it.
> All the server has to do is copy event to all connected clients.
> Server code is very simple. About 20 lines, everything in a single 
> thread, if you use GLib's event loop.
> 

If using a central "server" process, all clients have to copy
the message to the server - then the server copies the messages
to multiple clients.

I can imagine a library, that holds a registry in shared mem, and
the clients look for themselves to whom to copy the message.
For this I want to use posix message queues to avoid lots of
context switches and copies.