launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

[Dar Scott]

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 09:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I appreciate the feedback, but I wound up polling a file for now.

I think this in general is an under-appreciated and under-explored 
approach.  I have seen this used as IPC in a mixed Windows & Linux 
environment using SAMBA.  You might want to see if directory polling is 
faster.  And watch out for the file being in use.

Dar Scott