On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 03:24:25AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
I'm looking for keywords to search for...
I have various local peripherals that I need to read and write. From top of my head, I'm thinking 3 ways:
1. Use select(2) (and friends) to round-robin the peripherals.
poll seems more popular these days than select.
2. Each peripheral is serviced by a separate thread, and main thread does the business logics. The peripherals don't need to talk to each other (but this may change).
3. Each peripheral is serviced by a separate process, and they pass "messages". This option is what I want to investigate.
So, do you know any "message-passing" scheme, framework, or library that I can look up? I'm not talking about OS or kernel level. More at application level.
Processes don't get to do anything without OS/kernel support. If you use seperate processes, you will need to use something from the OS/kernel to pass messages. -- Len Sorensen