Recently, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: >> 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.
I wanted to ask something about this method. I assume your setup involves creating a file while things are happening, and then removing the file when the app/s are done? I've avoided this technique simply because I've never been able to figure how to account for a crashed process and a leftover file. If your app crashes (rare, I know) and your temporary file is still present, how do you distinguish between "current" file versus a leftover? Thanks & Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design ----- E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
