9 Interprocess Communication under LISP

Written by William Lott and Bill Chiles  

CMU Common Lisp offers a facility for interprocess communication (IPC) on top of using Unix system calls and the complications of that level of IPC. There is a simple remote-procedure-call (RPC) package build on top of TCP/IP sockets.

 
• 9.1 The REMOTE Package
  • 9.1.1 Connecting Servers and Clients
  • 9.1.2 Remote Evaluations
  • 9.1.3 Remote Objects
  • 9.1.4 Host Addresses
• 9.2 The WIRE Package
  • 9.2.1 Untagged Data
  • 9.2.2 Tagged Data
  • 9.2.3 Making Your Own Wires
• Out-Of-Band Data