libev: notify only one process when multiple processes are listening socket

[Marc Lehmann]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:35:33AM -0700, trafdev <trafdev at mail.ru> wrote:
> I don't want to introduce threads or IPC mechanisms.

You simply have to, unless you can use an OS specific mechanism to do it
for you.

(examples would be: send a token around, have a reverse proxy distribute
the conenctions etc.).

>    int wrk = thread::hardware_concurrency();
>    while (--wrk) {
>        pid_t pid = fork();
>        if (pid == 0) {
>            ev::default_loop().post_fork();
>            ev::default_loop().run();
>            return true;
>        }
>    }
>    ev::default_loop().run();
>    return true;

This works - make sure you don't start any watchers before fork, unless
you want those watchers to be active in all children.

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