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standard mechanism for exchanging objects

standard mechanism for exchanging objects

Posted Jun 25, 2008 10:18 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: standard mechanism for exchanging objects by jreiser
Parent article: Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine)

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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