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From: cabral@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Brian Cabral)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Looking for a portable IPC subroutine package
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Date: 7 Feb 91 02:55:26 GMT
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[[I'm posting this for my friend Brian who doesn't have convenient access
to the outside world.  Please send replies directly to him.  He'll
summarize back to the group.  Thanks!  Casey]]

I'm looking for a portable (BSD socket based) IPC subroutine package
which will allow me to send a stream of data to multiple processes
(possibly on different machines).  Ultimately these data streams need to
support multiple readers and writers.  I know I can directly do this with
sockets, however the resulting programs that use a hand coded
implementation using sockets would be ugly.  The key is to have a
subroutine interace that is nearly as simple as open, read, write, and
close for multiplexed distributed communication.

						Thanks in advance,
						Brian Cabral

						cabral@lll-crg.llnl.gov