A capability supported by some operating systems that allows one process to communicate with another process. The processes can be running on the same computer or on different computers connected through a network. It enables one application to control another application, and for several applications to share the same data without interfering with one another.
Questions tagged [interprocess]
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Speeding up shared memory operations c++
I have a dll application which is written in Visual Studio 2008 VC++. Basicly it has two interface to the external applications.
One of them is for writer:
class writer_interface
{
virtual void write (myData data, unsigned long id) = 0;
}
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InterProcess Communication and BroadCasting
I am working on a inter processes communication. I came across named pipe communication.
I already have some basic idea but need to make sure the following points?
Does name pipe can have more than one client at a same time?
Does it supports…

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boost::interprocess message queue Race Condition on creation?
I am trying to debug sporadic access violations that occur inside a boost::interprocess message queue. (access violation reading an address in the shared memory region).
Environment: boost 1.54, VC++2010. Occurs in both Debug & Release builds.
It…

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How to construct vector in the vector by boost::interprocess
I have leraned the boost sample about "Create vectors in shared_memory".
Now My data structure is like :
Data structure:
enum FuncIndex
{
enmFunc_glBegin,
...
}
class CGLParam {};
class Funcall
{
vector vecParams;
};
class…

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Boost shared_memory_object problem with types different from char
I have a problem with boost shared_memory_object and mapped_region. I want to write a set of objects (structures) in the memory object. If the structure contains just a char, everything is ok; if I just add an int to the structure, then if I put too…

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Interprocess Communication / Broadcast
I have a Windows Service (implemented in C#) and I have something like a service control manager. I would like to trace messages from the service to the service control manager (which is a window forms application), but I'm not sure what's the best…

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C++ How to implement interprocess socket communication?
I would like to setup interprocess communication using sockets between a server and several client processes using C++. The server and all client processes will be running on the on the same Windows 7 computer. The intention is that a std::vector of…

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erlang inter-process lock mechanism (such as flock)
Does Erlang have an inter-process (I mean Linux or Windows process) lock mechanism such as flock ?
The usage would be as follows :
an Erlang server starts serving a repository, and puts a file lock (or whatever)
if another OS process (another…

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How to make a process fire an event in another process in c#/.net?
How to make process-1 able to fire an event in process-2, and send along few argument, to signal the 2nd process to do a specific action, and optionally receive a reply?
It is possible to do this using the filesystem, there could be a file, where…

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Inter Application Communication in Android
I have an activity in one application that calls the activity of another application. How can be done with intent or any other way. For example in single application, we can do it like:
Intent i = new Intent(this,…

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C#: Read and modify settings in another application's app.config file
I have a number of applications running which communicate with each other but none of these applications have their own user interface. I have a system console application which acts as a user interface for the system (i.e. the set of applications…

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Python interprocess communication with idle processes
I have an idle background process to process data in a queue, which I've implemented in the following way. The data passed in this example is just an integer, but I will be passing lists with up to 1000 integers and putting up to 100 lists on the…

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Writing to boost shared memory
It must have been straight forward answer, but I haven't found anywhere how to do it...
I have successfully created a shared memory segment using boost IPC system as in the example:
boost::interprocess::managed_shared_memory…

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Boost interprocess: how to create map with custome allocator?
So I faaced map, ShmemAllocator> MyMap; from interprocess tutoral I wonder how to make std::string, std::string map?

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boost::interprocess and circular_buffer , C++
My English is approximate, I apologize for this inconvenience.
I am c++ developer and I would like to use boost::circular_buffer in my boost::interprocess program.
This following code compiles but there is a freeze at startup :
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