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Old 12-26-2004, 02:28 PM   #1
george_mercury
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"Listen on localhost" - what does it mean?


Hi!
I'm writing a daemon which woule take commands from gdb (GNU debugger), interpret them and send them to a remote target. A developer told me to: "write a daemon to listen on localhost, and speak whatever protocol your target needs.". What did he mean with "listen on localhost"? How would I intercept commands from a running program (like gdb)?

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George
 
Old 12-26-2004, 03:08 PM   #2
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localhost points to 127.0.0.1, your machine. So it'd be basically running in your machine.. like all the daemons you want to run.

ping localhost
 
Old 12-26-2004, 03:26 PM   #3
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OK, thanks! But, how would you then listen to a pogram like gdb?
 
Old 12-26-2004, 06:16 PM   #4
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Sorry but I can't help you much on this one. My programming skills are low.

 
Old 12-26-2004, 06:27 PM   #5
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I'm not sure what you mean by take commands from gdb. gdb doesn't give any commands. What is it you're trying to do?
 
Old 12-26-2004, 06:28 PM   #6
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you might want to look at rmi, soap, sockets and others.
 
  


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