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From: fjhenigman@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Frank J. Henigman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: GL event que (GTX/120)
Message-ID: <11432@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 89 01:11:38 GMT
References: <56867@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <3045@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <41279@sgi.sgi.com>
Reply-To: fjhenigman@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Frank J. Henigman)
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In article <41279@sgi.sgi.com> msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:

>Trying to use the GL queue for interprocess communication is really gross.
>Use one of the many real IPC mechanisms available under IRIX.

>If you need to check for activity on both your GL queue and your IPC file
>descriptors, open the special file /dev/queue and add its file descriptor to
>the list you are handing to select.  A select on /dev/queue indicates there
>is data available in you GL input queue.

Can you do this with any "real IPC mechanism" other than a socket?
Like maybe shared memory/semaphores or inter-process message queues?
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