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Alex Zeffertt
Alex Zeffertt

Reputation: 1572

rpc mechanism to use with select driven daemon

I want to add an RPC service to my unix daemon. The daemon is written in C and has an event driven loop implemented using select(). I've looked at a number of RPC implementations but they all seem to involve calling a library routine, or auto generated code, which blocks indefinitely.

Are there any RPC frameworks out there where the library code/autogenerated code doesn't block or start threads. Ideally, I'd like to create the input/output sockets myself and pass them into my select loop.

Regards,

Alex - first time poster! :-)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 229

Answers (1)

Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison

Reputation: 19403

I'm assuming that you can use C++ Apache Thrift is good - FAST RPC is also useful.

I evaluated a fair few libraries at the start of 2012 and eventually ended up going with ZeroMQ as it was more adaptable and (I found it) easier and a lot more flexible. I did consider using a Google protobuf implementation but ended up using a simpler structured command text approach.

I probably wouldn't consider doing this in C unless I had to, in which case I'd probably start with the standard rpc(3) stuff, for a good overview see this overview of Remote Procedure Calls (RPC).

Upvotes: 1

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