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standard mechanism for exchanging objectsstandard mechanism for exchanging objectsPosted Jun 25, 2008 4:57 UTC (Wed) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)In reply to: Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine) by nix Parent article: Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine) (The real problem here is that Unix has a standard mechanism for exchanging text streams, but none for exchanging objects ... On the contrary: fork(), then dlopen(). The objects persist, the manipulators come and go, the schema control can be written any way you please. [You need a much better debugger than gdb, but that's nothing new...]
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standard mechanism for exchanging objects Posted Jun 25, 2008 10:18 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] The problem is that fork()-then-dlopen() gives you objects only in the C sense. There's no standard mechanism for exchanging objects with defined lifetimes and so on (not least because every language defines those differently: they don't define text-stream-exchange differently, because the OS dictates that.)
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