Re: new subcategory "Node" & something about processes

I thought about "Endpoint", but it's too long and Node sounds better ;) On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:31:11 +0100 arnaud.limbourg@club-internet.fr (Arnaud Limbourg) wrote: > Makes sense. Do you propose Node as category name ? If so i don't think it really reflects > the idea of it. But i don't have any better idea. > > Anybody ? > > > Hi, > > > > (seems like nobody answered my net_socket post :/ let's try something new ;p) > > Okay. I'm sure that pear will need a new subcategory for connection endpoints, > > because there are quite a lot of it : > > o Sockets > > o System V message queues > > o FIFO named pipes > > ... > > > > In future Net_Socket can't be stored in Net anymore, because it could also > > be possible then to create UNIX sockets with it (php's new socket extension). > > Of course, this new kind of Node_Socket and Node_SysVMsg (or however) need > > experimental extensions (sockets, sysvmsg) but I think that's ok. For me > > it already works really fine. I tried to make some benchmark with > > Sockets against SysVMsg but this pcntl_waitpid stuff didn't work. > > Well, here is it without any useable result : > > http://0x03.net/sources/MsgVsSocket.phps > > (Process.phps and Node.phps are also stored in the same directory) > > Sockets, message queues and the ipc stuff is in usage very similar > > to other languages like c or c++. So it's great to translate the > > code one-to-one into another language and link php to it. > > That's it.. > > > > bye > > > > -- > > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >