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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de (Michael Mauch), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 14:13:45 +0000
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Subject: Re: DJGPP, interprocess communication, and DPMI
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michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de (Michael Mauch) wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:57:16 +0000, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> >   Bill did it in a better way, you can setup the size of memory used to
> > comunicate the programs and as a plus this memory can be used as a common
> > transfer buffer too. In fact the TSR was for that.
> 
> Hmm, do you have a message ID for his posting? I could not find it, not
> even with DejaNews.
I think he posted the code first to the djggp-workers list and then directly to 
me so if you aren't in djgpp-workers list you never got it.
  
> > Is easy to communicate only 2 process but for more I think is more complex.
> > Any ideas?
> 
> One way to differentiate between more processes could be to use the
> Virtual Machine ID (Int 2F, 1683h) - or use the getpid() function from
> libc.
I think it can be used, but the complexity is in the syncronization. What if 
one of the process hangs while have the control of the channel?, I guess here 
we need a time out. What if one process is too busy to answer ... etc.

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