Re: Cuirass actors

[Thompson, David]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 11:31 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
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> > I'm curious to hear more about your inter-process transport needs!
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> I’d like to have actors running in separate processes on the same
> machine.  I wouldn’t want them to communicate over Tor or TCP+TLS;
> rather, I’d like them to use AF_UNIX sockets, “abstract sockets”, pipes,
> socketpairs—one of these local IPC mechanisms.
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> My understanding is that there could be an ocapn “netlayer” based on
> that.  Does that make sense?  Is this something you’re considering?

Thanks for clarifying! Yes, we definitely intend to provide local IPC
netlayers such as UNIX domain sockets.  We actually have a test
netlayer that uses UNIX domain sockets, so some of this work has
already been done.

- Dave