Re: interprocess communciation

most commonly used (in my opinion) are :
- mutex : used to synchronize 2 threads/process
- critical section : lighter than mutex but can only be used for 2 threads
of the same process
- message queue : synchronization and information exchange between 2
processes /threads
- mapfile : allow exchanging lots of data netween 2 processes
- events : synchronization between 2 processes/threads. Widely used at
application level

This is not exhaustive

Hope this helps

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"sonu" <sonuthomas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> the documentation is vaguely telling about the various interprocess
> synchronisation mechanisms in windows ce.
> Do we have any mechanisms other than the following
> 1) Memory mapped files
> using api's like createfilemap
> 2) Message Queuing
> it again have 2 flavours
> a) using sendmessage and getmessage
> b) WM_COPYDATA
> 3) Mailslots
> i have read the complete documentation about the above two and a lot
> of articles also.
> i heard that we have various other mechanisms from the article
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q95900/ which just mentions
> about named pipes ,OLE,windows socket,RPC,NETBIOS,DDE.
> can anyone tell me how the above mechanisms can be used or any
> articles describing about them.
> It would be really appreciated if any fruitful reply comes.
>
>
> Thanking you,
>
> with regards
> Sonu Thomas
>


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