Re: Re: Re: Inter-Process Communication

OK, some other ideas:

Set up some shared memory. Most of the CPAN stuff is SYSV based, but perhaps use Cache::Cache.

Or perhaps have your Win32 app write the data to a normal file, and then send a signal to the perl process. Put a signal handler in the script so that it knows when it is time to read the file.

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Inter-Process Communication
by Nitrox (Chaplain) on Jul 21, 2002 at 06:18 UTC

perigeeV

I couldn't use the shared memory function because IPC::ShareLite won't compile on Win32 and is required. But Cache::Cache will still compile with it.

So my solution is to use Cache::FileCache. I've include two quick proof of concept scripts to demonstrate:

First run the 'writer':

# Program 1
use Cache::FileCache;

my $cache = new Cache::FileCache({ 'namespace' => 'SharedCache', 'defa
+ult_expires_in' => 600 } );

my $passed_data = "This is a passed string";

$cache->set( "Data", $passed_data, "10 minutes" );
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#Program 2
use Cache::FileCache;

my $cache = new Cache::FileCache( { 'namespace' => 'SharedCache', 'def
+ault_expires_in' => 600 } );

my $passed_data = $cache->get("Data");

print "$passed_data\n";
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-Nitrox

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