Re: [Boost-users] [interprocess] Many-to-many communication

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-27 15:27:44

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Boris <boriss_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I have an application which needs to communicate with several other
>  applications on the same machine. I thought to use message queues but
>  quickly ran into a problem: Either I create as many threads as there are
>  message queues which all block and wait for incoming data or I constantly
>  poll all message queues. The later should be easily possible with
>  try_receive(). However it doesn't sound like a good idea to poll
>  continuously? And I assume integrating the message queue somehow into
>  Boost.Asio is not something easily possible? Thus for many-to-many
>  communication shared memory is probably the way to go?

You can use a mix of shared memory (interprocess) and socket
communication for notifications.

>  Boris

Regards,
-- 
Felipe Magno de Almeida