My question is how would I implement sending arguments to a program running in the background? Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Jump to PostThe two programs are running as separate processes, so you need to use IPC.
Jump to PostAre you talking about *nix or MS-Windows?
Jump to PostOn MS-Windows the background program(s) would be running as Windows Services. One way to communicate with a service is via COM programming. Of course the serice has to be written as a COM program in order for application programs to talk to it. One common type of service program is …
Jump to PostOk, well what about in *nix?? Wouldn't a way to achieve this is to have the program in the background to be looking for a file, that the other program will create with the command. If it finds a file, it opens it extracts the command and performs it. Is …
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