Inter-Process Communication #498
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This PR implements basic inter-process communication (IPC), which is an API-only feature - not available through CLI.
Commandhas the following new fields/methods:send: to send messagesmessages.incoming: to listen for received messagesmessages.outgoing: to listen for sent messagesThe caller must set the
ipcproperty when callingconcurrently(). It sets the number of the file descriptor on which to set up the IPC channel.Example usage:
With this PR I also realise that the README is no longer a good option for documentation.
We need to expand it into a website...