From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to communicate with a running external process with given PID? Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:43:25 +0200 Message-ID: <8738r7yloi.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87mwph7bav.fsf@informatimago.com> <87ip05726h.fsf@informatimago.com> <877ggjyq65.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374486245 27543 80.91.229.3 (22 Jul 2013 09:44:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:44:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 22 11:44:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V1Cew-0001AK-AZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:44:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38989 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1Cev-0005Jq-V8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56267) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1Ced-0005A5-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:43:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1Cec-0004kh-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60084) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1Ceb-0004kd-To for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V1Cea-0000mp-U5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:43:40 +0200 Original-Received: from e178189097.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.189.97]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:43:40 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178189097.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:43:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178189097.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fEtA4Ainagr4OeJTC0N04ViywFs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92313 Archived-At: Aurélien Aptel writes: > If you just want to read and write stuff, HTTP is probably overkill > too. Use plain sockets. While I figured out that in my case using HTTP would be just fine, I would still be interested in the answer to my (a tad naive) original question: how would you establish (in an Emacs Lisp program) plain socket communication between Emacs and an already running external process (of a Lisp dialect that is not Emacs Lisp) with given PID? -- cheers, Thorsten