Re: Events

From: Davide Libenzi (davidel@maticad.it)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 01:56:16 EST

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> Shared memory basically allows you to share a chunk of memory.
> You protect access to this chunk by using a semaphore.
> Depending on how you use the semaphore, you may also need to use
> a single signal to inform the other process that it has a
> message waiting inside the shared memory.

I agree with Christopher, shm + sem is IMHO the better solution.
Inside XMail tarbal ftp://ftp.maticad.it/pub/misc/mailsvr.tar.gz You'll find
the code
to handle this kind of data structure in a system independent way ( Linux &
Win32 ).

Davide

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