Re: global variables sharing among processes

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Anita Kishore (kishore++at++triavest.com)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:36:38 -0700

On Jun 9, 12:45pm, Rémi Arnaud wrote:
> Subject: Re: global variables sharing among processes
> Charlie H. Chang wrote:
> >
> > I have a Performer program, and when I update some of the global
> > variables,
> > it doesn't propagate to other processes.
> > I thought Performer uses sproc to fork child processes, so all global
> > variables are
> > shared among child processes. Is that right?
>
> No, Performer uses fork, which explains your problem.
> You have to use the shared arena to share data between processes,
> furthermore, you have to use pfCycleBuffer to manage the multiple
> values a data can have when used by more than one process in different
> stages of the pfPipe pipeline.
>

Or You could also use pf data pools.

-anita

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