🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi folks,
I recently had to fix a bug where my memory mapped file
that was running in my service application was not
visible to my foreground application.

To fix this I had to add Global to the name like this.....

From: "MMAPFILE"
To: "Global\\MMAPFILE"

Had to do this to both my service and foreground application.

Now in some cases it works fine, e.g. in my development environment
it was not necessary for me to make these changes. It seems to
be a namespace issue

http://blogs.msdn.com/maartenb/archive/2008/05/07/memory-mapped-files-from-xp-to-vista.aspx

In this article they articulate the problem - but with vista, however it 
also applies, "at times", to XP services. The real problem being here is
"at times".


Question: (Finally)
How do I know that the operating system will run my service and
create memory mapped files within a separate namespace or not.

thanks..