[luatex] IPC best practices?

[Hans Hagen]

On 2/11/2017 3:04 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a bit of a vague question about inter process communication. The setup is a program written in Go (but that should not matter very much) that starts one LuaTeX process as a child. Supported systems are Linux, Windows and Mac. Now I would like to talk between the parent process (Go) and the child process (LuaTeX) such as:
>
>   parent: "Hello child, please do this"
>   child: "hi parent, I have done this, here is the result"
>
> and so on.
>
> What is the cleanest way to do this? I used to do that over TCP sockets (talking on a defined port on the local host), but this does not seem as the optimal solution. For example on Windows I get a "firewall warning" that the user has to click away.
>
> Any idea on that topic?

use sockets (socket library is present)


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