maandree / bus

NAME
	bus - A simple daemonless system for broadcasting messages locally

DESCRIPTION
	bus is a simple daemonless system for broadcasting messages locally.
	It is a lightweight alternative to a two-phase interprocess flexible
	barrier.

	bus uses a System V semaphore array and System V shared memory.
	Buses are named; the key of the semaphore array and the shared
	memory is stored in a regular file.

	The shared memory used by bus is always 2048 bytes. Additionally
	all messages should be encoded in UTF-8 and not contain any NULL
	characters, except they MUST always end with a zero byte.
	Furthermore messages should be prefixed with the process
	identifer of the process whence the message originated, followed
	by a space. If the process is ephemeral, 0 should be used instead
	of the process identifier.

	Communication over bus is synchronous. The broadcast call does
	not return until all listeners have received (and copied) the
	message. A malfunctioning program can lock the bus.

	This software package contains a C library and a command line
	utility. The package python-bus provides a Python 3 module.

RATIONALE
	We need an interprocess communication system similar to message
	queues. But we need broadcasting rather than anycasting, so we
	have a fast, simple and daemonless system for announcing events
	to any processes that might be interested.

SEE ALSO
	libshr(7), cmdipc(1), msgctl(3), semctl(3), shmctl(3), mqueue.h(0),
	semaphore.h(0), sem_overview(7), mmap(3), pipe(3), socketpair(3),
	socket(3), unix(7), cmsg(3), kill(3), eventfd(2),  memfd_create(2),
	pthread_mutex_destroy(3), pthread_rwlock_destroy(3), futex(7),
	pthread_spin_destroy(3), pthread_cond_destroy(3), lockf(3), flock(2),
	fcntl(3), ioctl(3), mkfifo(3), rendezvous(2), 9p(2), libdoor(3),
	python-bus