Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Simple Message Queuing

[Loic Dachary]

        Could you please send me the tarbal ?

        Thanks in advance,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Bradford C Smith <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Simple Message Queuing
 > System name: smq
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > SMQ provides a way for your programs to talk to one another
 > asynchronously by means of message queues.  Most IPC methods require
 > both communicating parties to be available at the same time for
 > communication to take place.  This poses a big problem if a program is
 > very busy doing other work, but still needs to get notified about the
 > actions of some other program.  The answer to this problem is message
 > queues.
 > 
 > SMQ provides a simple shell command, smq, that allows you to create and
 > destroy message queues, place limits on the number of messages they can
 > hold and the size of those messages, allow specific users or groups to
 > send messages to the queue and, of course, send and receive messages
 > through those queues.  Eventually, I plan to break out an SMQ library
 > that is callable directly from C, but for now you\'ll have to use
 > system().
 > 
 > Eventually SMQ will provide programs built on top of the basic
 > functionality that can be plugged together to build arbitrary message
 > passing systems.  These will include at least:
 > 
 >  - A queue forwarder that simply copies messages from one queue to
 >    another.  This program may also allow header information to be added
 >    to or removed from the messages.
 > 
 >  - A queue list server that forwards messages from one queue to a list
 >    of subscribing queues in a manner very similar to an email list
 >    server.
 > 
 > This project already exists, but I don\'t have anywhere to put it for 
 > download.  If you would like a copy, please email me.  It\'s only about 80k 
 > tarred and gzipped so far.
 > 

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