Re: Sending commands to another process that isn't expecting it

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Re^2: Sending commands to another process that isn't expecting it by Anonymous Monk on Dec 05, 2010 at 11:25 UTC
The process issuing the commands to the daemon will not be a parent of the daemon. Should I just send a SIGUSR1 to the daemon process using kill and then in the handler for SIGUSR1 in the daemon have it check a fifo file for input?	[reply]
Re^3: Sending commands to another process that isn't expecting it by mellon85 (Monk) on Dec 05, 2010 at 17:47 UTC
That's exactly what I meant	[reply]
Re^4: Sending commands to another process that isn't expecting it by mikealeonetti (Novice) on Dec 05, 2010 at 22:03 UTC
There isn't such a thing as a bidirectional FIFO is there? I tried opening both FIFOs as "+<" but it didn't work as expected. I suppose if I want the daemon to communicate back and send an "OK" message or anything I'd have to switch up the read/write mode on both ends?	[reply]
Re^2: Sending commands to another process that isn't expecting it by mikealeonetti (Novice) on Dec 05, 2010 at 11:37 UTC
That uh... Anonymous response was actually from me. I didn't see that I wasn't logged in... Embarrassingly enough.	[reply]