Re: Shared memory between applications

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From: Ian Heath
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 15:57

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swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk) writes:

>Can anyone tell me what mechanism can be used to share
>a memory area between applictions. What I am trying
>to accomplish is to have a server process directly
>manipulate a memory area and have several other
>applications access the information in this "global" area.

>I know that one can use DDE for such an application,
>but that seems overkill for what I am trying to do.

If you specify GMEM_SHARE as a flag in a call to GlobalAlloc(), the
memory allocated can be shared by any application that knows the handle.
(This flag is also used by the DDE for passing data between applications).

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From: ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Ian Heath)
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Subject: Re: Shared memory between applications
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