launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

[Dar Scott]

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> 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.

Cool!  I would guess that would avoid locking problems, too.  (Let's 
see; scribble under Gaskin in the rollodex, "file-based IPC expert".)

Dar Scott