Communication between multiple programs

[jvdboom]

My question is what is the best way?
The programs are some perl and other languages
And they will be compiled to exe(some with the -gui option of perl2exe)
I know that I can use pipes,backticks and systems and so on to run programs, but I want to make a connection between several programs when they are already running, like they are talking a specific protocol the programs however are running on the same computer and shouldn't be avaible from the network or internet.so a socket to a port wouldn't be a good thing(are there ports that are only avaible from the the same pc?). Are there a possiblity to have DMA or access interupts for this?

 

[jamisar]

in unix i use 'shmem' and 'ipcs'
shared memory and interprocess queues vox clamantis in deserto.

 

[jvdboom]

is there also a possiblity to do it on a windows XP system?

 

[MikeLacey]

Using sockets might well be worth thinking about, you can write fairly portable sockets code.

The security issue of having a process listening on a socket shouldn't be too hard to deal with, especially as you could build it in right from the start. Mike
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