Re: Bidirectional io.open()...anyone got one?

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

--- Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:


> what you're asking for could (in theory, i guess)
> would need sockets 
> (which are bidirectional). you creae a socket pair
> (using socketpair(), 
> of course), give one to the process creator and use
> the other to read/write
> 
The hard part though is, how to coordinate the reading
and writing in a non-threading environment ? Reading
and writing from the same process in such a situation
seems to create a natural deadlock situation.


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