From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,ed94ed1b0b101d35 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.52.195 with SMTP id j3mr656026qag.0.1347994641989; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:57:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.30.164 with SMTP id t4mr288184vdh.4.1347994641903; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:57:21 -0700 (PDT) Path: t12ni14461319qak.0!nntp.google.com!v8no63859qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:57:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.51.153.177; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.51.153.177 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Tcl/TK + Ada From: Patrick Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:57:21 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-09-18T11:57:21-07:00 List-Id: Hi Simon I am still really in the planning stage right now...but when I say daemon I mean a process that stays alive and accepts instructions. I was planning on using a port to receive on. So let's say we were controlling an optical spectrometer, we might have commands like: set_wavelength set_high_voltage set_stirrer plot etc So take the plot command for instance. I want the command to send an instruction and arguments to the daemon and then return right away. The plotting could take hours or days so the daemon could be responsible for it after that point. If I had all these simple little commands to control the daemon I thought I could also build a gui for it to visualize the data being collected. Hope this isn't too long or too off topic.... Thanks