[ale] Stupid socket tricks

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Now THIS looks like the real winner.

Thanks

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:

> Glenn C. Lasher Jr. writes:
>  > 
>  > I'm looking for a solution to a problem, and I stumbled upon the named
>  > pipe as a possible solution, but it doesn't behave in the needed manner.
>  > 
>  > What I am trying to do is cause data from one process to be distributed to
>  > multiple processes, some of which may or may not be there, but the data is
>  > real-time, and any data that was there before a receiving process started
>  > is not to be delivered to that process.  (the application is an MP3
>  > streamer)
> 
> [snip]
>  > 
>  > So what do I need to do differently?  I want to have the MP3's generated
>  > in realtime and anything for which there is no receiver needs to go to the
>  > bit bucket in the sky.  
> 
> You might try a upd multicast socket.  One process can send to the
> multicast socket and other processes can listen to it.  If they get
> the packet they can deal with it, and otherwise it just disappears
> into the aether.  It worked well for an conferencing internet
> telephone I once worked on, and it has the added advantage that the
> processes need not be on the same physical machine.
> 
> 

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