Re: Interprocess communication in Lua scripts

[David Given <dg@...>]

Javier Guerra wrote:
[...]
> in fact, this is the usual way.  most daemons create either pipes or sockets 
> somewhere so that other processes (clients) can easily find them.

If you really need to, there's also the black art of constructing IPC
mechanisms out of file primitives --- it's quite scary, and not at all fast,
but is portable and works everywhere. It tends to be used by shell scripts.

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