Re: Question : Broadcast Inter Process Communication ?

[Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche--list.linux-kernel@exmail.de>]

Hi Jean,

Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> writes:

> 	I was looking under Linux for a mechanism to distribute an
> event from one process (a daemon) to a set of other processes (deamons
> or applications). The number and indentity of those other processes
> would not be known by the process generating the event, those
> processes would register themselves dynamically to the stream of
> event. And the event need to be delivered to all of them (not only the
> first one).
> 	In other words, it would look like a *broadcast* message
> queue, where the sender process would create the queue and write
> events to it, and the other bunch of processes would dynamically open
> the queue and listen for events.

[snip]

> 	This "one sender - multiple reader" model seems common and
> usefull enough that there must be a way to do that under Linux. I know
> that it exist under Windows. Can somebody help me to find out how to
> do it under Linux ?


Maybe, you're looking for multicast. But you need a TCP/IP stack for
this and I don't know, wether this is implemented in Linux.

Regards, Olaf.