what's the quickest/easiest way to do some IPC wit...
# kotlin-nativek
Karlo Lozovina
09/05/2021, 6:09 PMwhat's the quickest/easiest way to do some IPC with Kotlin/Native on Linux? Both processes in Kotlin, of course...
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mbonnin
09/05/2021, 6:12 PMOpen a socket?
mbonnin
09/05/2021, 6:12 PMMight be a bit low level but I can't think of any higher level alternative lib
mbonnin
09/05/2021, 6:14 PMAnd use kotlinx.serialization.protobuf to serialize/deserialize?
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Karlo Lozovina
09/05/2021, 6:15 PMyeah, was looking for something at least a bit higher level than sockets...
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mbonnin
09/05/2021, 6:18 PMActually, maybe ktor and HTTP 🙃 ?
mbonnin
09/05/2021, 6:18 PMBut I don't think the server part can do native just yet
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napperley
09/06/2021, 12:38 AMNamed pipes ( https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/named-pipe-fifo-example-c-program/ ) might do the trick. Sockets have more overhead than pipes. Here is a video that demonstrates named pipes in action:
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napperley
09/06/2021, 12:40 AMNote that named pipes cannot be accessed remotely (some could see this as a security feature), outside of the computer it is created on unlike sockets.
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