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. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.1: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
