Best practice for variables shared between processes?

[Simon Wistow]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:16:40PM +0100, Mark Fowler said:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Simon Wistow <simon at thegestalt.org> wrote:
> 
> > Redis doesn't have queues (i.e deliver to only one subscriber), it only
> > has topics (deliver to all subscribers).
> 
> Can't I just BLPOP?
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/BlpopCommand

You can fake it using BLPOP I think. Although my patch has the advantage 
that clients can listen for both topics and queues on the same key 
whereas with BLPOP you can't