Re: ifile lexing question

[email protected] said:
> I'm working on daemonizing ifile, and I have a question for Jason (or
> anyone else deeply familiar with the internals).  The problem is, I
> want to schlep a message over a pipe from client to server without
> necessarily closing the pipe afterward to send an EOF.  The lexing
> code seems to run 'til EOF at the moment, but it looks like I could
> maybe set an "end of document" pattern somewhere, and then just
> terminate a message-send with something like "\n------IFILE_END_OF_MESS
> AGE-----\n" or somesuch.   

If you also want to move parsing/lexing to the client end, I'd recommend 
not using the current lexing code for the server.  Probably easier to 
write new code.

Jason D. M. Rennie
MIT AI Lab
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