pipes

[esneider]

there's a limit of 256 open files per process, so each process can have ~250 pipes. Since we have two pipes per child process, there's an upper bound of ~125 number of total tanks (players * tanks_per_player)

[eordano]

Hmm, that sucks. Is that limitation per process or per thread? Possible solution: fork process and handle each team's tanks in different threads/process.

That should get us up to ~125 tanks per team :D

[esneider]

I think that's possible.. maybe you can extend that to each team's process having several processes that handle the tanks.. do you want to code it? :)

[eordano]

And we have to think about the IPC... I mean... when I spawn the process,
how do I get to talk back to my parent?

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:15 PM, esneider <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

I think that's possible.. maybe you can extend that to each team's process
having several processes that handle the tanks.. do you want to code it? :)

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[esneider]

The same way we do now :S with pairs of pipes

[eordano]

Oh, that's right :P

I'll get into that...