Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reconfigurable GnuRadio

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:51:23AM -0500, Meenal wrote:
> Hello all,
> Is it possible to extend the reconfigurable property of GnuRadio to Inter 
> Process Communication or does that already exist ?
> I would like to implement three processes say source, processor and sink 
> and be able to communicate between them , with the flexibility of being 
> able to swap out any process without killing the pipeline. I was thinking 
> of using sockets to do this but would like to know if there is a more 
> efficient approach to this problem.
> Thanks
> Meenal 

Sockets work fine.  

Create them in python, then pass the corresponding file descriptor to
gr.file_descriptor_source or gr.file_descriptor_sink

One question is what do you want to happen to the pipeline when you
are swapping out the source or sink?

Eric