A tangle with shared memory
Code: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxorjNRCBW61Ri1ib3ZLa2t6Tk0/edit?usp=sharing Recently I was thinking about inter-process communication and especially how to pass/ share data/ information between two running applications. The thing was, I wanted to check out inter-process communication interfaces and see if there was anything Qt provided that I could use. My requirement is not finalized or anything. The rough idea is to have a channel of communication between two apps. Here my thoughts diverge a bit in that, I am yet not sure of the method of communication. There are two approaches: 1. The message system should be a message board where many processes post messages for each other and periodically access the boards to check out their messages. 2. The message system should be P2P. One process sends a message to another and that message (preferably named) makes other process do something like maybe send an acknowledgement. Now after digging through the various approaches, ...