Re: blocking IPC

From: Valentin Nechayev (netch_at_segfault.kiev.ua)
Date: 05/30/03 

Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:15:12 +0300

>>> Leonidas Petrauskas wrote:

LP> what is the best way for blocking on a condition?
LP> Situation: process A spawns child B,
LP> B waits for messages from A.
LP> When A sends B a message, it blocks until
LP> receiving answer from B.

Unnamed pipes. They doesn't pollute any namespace.

LP> Waiting has to be effective also (no busy loops).

Of course.

-netch-

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