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Re: Python and IDL [message #39565]

Fri, 28 May 2004 14:01

Chris[1]
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Registered: January 2003

Junior Member

Actually, rather than using Python to create the FIFO, you can use IDL
(using the "spawn,'mkfifo filename' " command)

Chris

"Chris" <not@this.address> wrote in message
news:hGNtc.38188$sr3.1238798@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Are you writing on a Unix-based system? Then you can use Python (I assume)
> to open a fifo; pass the name to the IDL routine, and have IDL open it as
a
> simple file using openu (open for update). I've found this a really
> efficient way to have IDL processes communicate on a multi-processor
system,
> since the Linux OS handles all the communications issues; and our
efficiency
> scaled nicely with the number of processors. If you want to be more
general,
> you could probably go to using sockets at both levels (I think the socket
> protocol is also available in windoze. I tried the pipe operations
available
> on W2K, all I can say is that it was up to the usual MS standards).
>
> Chris
>
> "Michael Wallace" <mwallace.no.spam@no.spam.swri.edu.invalid> wrote in
> message news:10ben71fnpegs2f@corp.supernews.com...
>> I'm probably the only person here who'd be interested in this, but I
>> guess I'll throw it out anyway.
>>
>
>

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		Re: Python and IDL By: Chris[1] on Fri, 28 May 2004 14:01
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