On Mon, 12 May 2008, Mark Taylor wrote:
> My sketchy research suggests that it ought not to be too much of
> a stretch to implement this functionality using SysV style IPC,
> if available (i.e. if Perl shmget() is implemented), via a module like
> IPC::Shareable or IPC::ShareLite. These modules work on the Perl which comes
> with my Linux machine without having to recompile it or anything. Linux and
> Mac have SysV IPC. It looks to me like
> MS Windows is sufficiently POSIXy to have it too, but I haven't tested this.
actually - having tested it, it appears that MS Windows lacks SysV IPC (at least, ActivePerl 5.8.8.822 on Windows XP does), so a Perl hub implementation which wanted to be able to run on Windows would need to use some other, perhaps more fiddly, way of doing the IPC. It's surely possible though.
-- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK m.b.taylor@bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/Received on 2008-05-13Z00:35:23