Re: synchronizing access to named mutexes

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:17

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Dennis Jones wrote:

>Communications synchronization is managed with a pair of named mutexes.
>After calling CreateProcess to start the EXE, the DLL sleeps for 1 second
>before sending any commands to the EXE, which typically gives the EXE enough

>never respond to the command.  So my question is, how can the DLL know when
>the EXE has opened the memory-mapped file and named mutexes, and is ready to
>begin receiving requests?

Aren't the signaling mechanisms you employ 2-way?
The DLL could wait for a signal.  The EXE would set the signal after
it has warmed up.

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