Re: Inter process communication

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George Williams (gcw++at++best.com)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 10:14:10 -0800

>Rather than directly using OS-level message queues, I would
>recommend attaching a piece of shared memory to both processes
>and writing a small C++ class to turn it into a bi-directional
>queue. This approach is faster (probably), more portable and
>amenable to implementation on more than one underlying IPC
>mechanism (i.e., sockets).

This is an excellent idea. If someone has already ambitiously written such
a class, perhaps they can post it to the group :) I could sure use it!

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