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Inter process communication
Peter Lom
8/20/2008 10:38:00 AM
Hi,
please advise on the following.
Need to implement execution of tasks in serial and parallel mode
together with daemons within Ruby.
Scenario:
The main program starts with a fork - it executes in the child process
some background programs in the strict sequence - need to leave this
child process running as a daemon.
When the last program announces that it finished init stage, it writes a
notice to the stdout (I cannot modify this notice but I know what is
it);
- how to advise the parent that all is ready?
I use Program.detach to continue in the main - all is OK but I don't
know when the last daemon finishes init and wrote that notice (use of
sleep works but is ugly)
When the parent knows all is ready, it should start launching new set of
tasks in serial or parallel mode.
I execute serial tasks in a separate thread and all works OK.
How can the parent know if parallel tasks finished?
Do I need semaphores/mutexes etc to organise this?
Many thanks
Peter
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1 Answer
Michael Morin
8/20/2008 11:31:00 AM
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Peter Lom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please advise on the following.
>
> Need to implement execution of tasks in serial and parallel mode
> together with daemons within Ruby.
>
> Scenario:
> The main program starts with a fork - it executes in the child process
> some background programs in the strict sequence - need to leave this
> child process running as a daemon.
> When the last program announces that it finished init stage, it writes a
> notice to the stdout (I cannot modify this notice but I know what is
> it);
> - how to advise the parent that all is ready?
>
> I use Program.detach to continue in the main - all is OK but I don't
> know when the last daemon finishes init and wrote that notice (use of
> sleep works but is ugly)
>
>
> When the parent knows all is ready, it should start launching new set of
> tasks in serial or parallel mode.
>
> I execute serial tasks in a separate thread and all works OK.
>
> How can the parent know if parallel tasks finished?
> Do I need semaphores/mutexes etc to organise this?
>
>
> Many thanks
> Peter
You have a few options.
You can use popen to run the daemon script, which will puts a message
that the parent program will gets. The popen method uses fork/exec
internally, so it will be in a separate process.
You can fork another process and use UNIX signals to signal the parent
it's ready. I'm not sure if Ruby can use the pause syscall and it will
probably only work on *nix.
Run the commands and then fork into parent program and daemon. This
means you won't need another mechanism to notify the parent the commands
have been run at all.
--
Michael Morin
Guide to Ruby
http://ruby....
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