[ale] Stupid socket tricks

[kachline at brightstar.gt.ed.net (Mike Kachline)]

> Now THIS looks like the real winner.

> >  > 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.

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> > 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
<snip>

	Heartedly agreed here. I haven't played with UDP multicast before,
but, it seems to fit your application rather nicely; much more so than any
of my solutions.


				- Mike
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