launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

[Richard Gaskin]

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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