hi quick question
can you communicate variubles between forks and if so how
communication between forks
hi quick question
can you communicate variubles between forks and if so how
Inter-Process Communication (IPC) techniques are what you're interested in.
This looks like some decent documentation on IPC in Linux: http://tldp.org/LDP/lpg/node7.html
gg
Good resource.Originally Posted by Codeplug
I'd encourage the OP to start with simple pipes.
thanks for that next problem
how about taking a recived message and reading the ip address from it.
agein is it possible and how is it done
Where is this message recieved from, and what do you want to send it to?
It sound like you would be better of using threads than forking [generally that is the better solution, but not always].
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ok i got the forking thing to work, i broadcast between a few servers to find a file. if a server has the file it replies to the broadcast but i need to find out the ip address for that replying server from the message is it possible?
the next stage will be to use that ip address to create a tcp connection and transfering the file
I'm sure it's possible, but I still think this is a typical "threads rather than forks" task.
Either way, I'm sure that the simplest solution is for the server to just add it's own IP address to the message when it responds to the broadcast - after all, the server must know who it is, right? [And don't worry about the extra data, it's only 4 bytes if you do it right].
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