opening sockets in modules

Doug Hardie bc979 at lafn.org
Wed Mar 29 09:32:09 CEST 2006


On Mar 28, 2006, at 22:08, radhika putty wrote:

> Hi..
>
> Are we allowed to open sockets inside a module and communicate with  
> other programs. If not then how else can we communicate with other  
> network programs..

I can't see why not.  I have one module that I tested that used pipes  
to move the actual updating of a sql database outside the radius  
server.  It worked just fine.  The performance improvement wasn't  
enough to justify doing that on a production server though.



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