launching on Wintel/inter-process communication
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Dec 3 13:35:10 EST 2002
Dar Scott wrote:
>
> 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.
By directory polling, do you mean checking the existence of a file rather
than its contents? That's the approach I took, much faster than always
accessing the file.
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Richard Gaskin
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