#!/usr/pkg/bin/python """socketpair example gotta get the hang of IPC one of these days""" Copyright = """ socketpair -- simple test of how socketpair works Copyright (C) 2005 John Comeau This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. """ errormessage = "Not all needed libraries found, upgrade or check path" try: True # not defined in older Python releases except: True, False = 1, 0 try: import sys, os, types, re, pwd sys.path.append(os.sep.join([pwd.getpwuid(os.geteuid())[5], 'lib', 'python'])) from com.jcomeau import gpl, jclicense except: try: sys.stderr.write("%s\n" % errormessage) except: print errormessage raise # get name this program was called as self = sys.argv[0].split(os.sep)[-1] command = self.split('.')[0] # chop any suffix (extension) # now get name we gave it when we wrote it originalself = Copyright.split()[0] # globals and routines that should be in every program # (yes, you could import them, but there are problems in that approach too) def DebugPrint(*whatever): return False # defined instead by pytest module, use that for debugging # other globals, specific to this program import socket def socketpair(*args): """set up a socketpair and send messages back and forth""" try: parent, child = socket.socketpair(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) pid = os.fork() if pid: # parent process parent.close() child.send("hear me talkin' to ya") message = child.recv(1024) print "child sent '%s'" % message else: child.close() message = parent.recv(1024) print "parent sent '%s'" % message parent.send("yep i hear ya") except: raise if __name__ == '__main__': # if this program was imported by another, the above test will fail, # and this following code won't be used... function = command; args = sys.argv[1:] # default case if command == originalself: try: if len(args) and eval('type(%s) == types.FunctionType' % args[0]): function = sys.argv[1]; args = sys.argv[2:] except: pass eval('%s%s' % (function, repr(tuple(args)))) else: # if you want something to be done on import, do it here; otherwise pass pass