Hi,

I have a three binarys, called mainBinary, databaseBinary and otherBinary.

mainBinary calls databaseBinary at startup and reads data from its stdout.

mainBinary also launches otherBinary as a child process. otherBinary sometimes needs to call databaseBinary and this information needs to be sent to mainBinary as well. At present this is send via otherBinary back up to mainBinary via sockets.

Is it possible that everytime databaseBinary is called (from any process) that its stdout is read automatically by mainBinary????

I hope you understand this.

basically I want mainBinary to always read the stdout of databaseBinary no matter what process calls it??

Thanks

What about routing the stdout of databaseBinary always to a fifo device? And the mainBinary is reading this fifo device.

There can be several mainBinaries running at once, does this make a difference with your suggestion??

No. But you will need to include some notifier of the source, as the messages will arrive interleaved then.