GL event que (GTX/120)

[Frank J. Henigman]

In article <41279 at sgi.sgi.com> msc at ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:

>Trying to use the GL queue for interprocess communication is really gross.
>Use one of the many real IPC mechanisms available under IRIX.

>If you need to check for activity on both your GL queue and your IPC file
>descriptors, open the special file /dev/queue and add its file descriptor to
>the list you are handing to select.  A select on /dev/queue indicates there
>is data available in you GL input queue.

Can you do this with any "real IPC mechanism" other than a socket?
Like maybe shared memory/semaphores or inter-process message queues?
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