OpenMutex in Windows

[Sam.Gundry]

Hi,

I am synchronising two processes via a mutex. Is it (very) inefficient
for the secondary process to open and then close the named mutex each
time it requires access to the shared resource?

Can someone direct me to information regarding efficiency of mutex,
semaphores and events?

Thanks for any response,

Sam.

 

[Mike Wahler]

Hi,

I am synchronising two processes via a mutex. Is it (very) inefficient
for the secondary process to open and then close the named mutex each
time it requires access to the shared resource?

Can someone direct me to information regarding efficiency of mutex,
semaphores and events?

This isn't really the place for such an issue. Here,
we only discuss the C++ language itself, not platform-
specific issues like yours.

You should get good help at newsgroup
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32

Also consider visiting the developer forums
at www.msdn.microsoft.com

Good luck.

Purpose and guidelines of comp.lang.c++ :
http://www.slack.net/~shiva/welcome.txt

-Mike

 

[stork]

Stork replied to:

I am synchronising two processes via a mutex. Is it (very) inefficient
for the secondary process to open and then close the named mutex each
time it requires access to the shared resource?

Can someone direct me to information regarding efficiency of mutex,
semaphores and events?

Thanks for any response,

Sam.

For the case of Windows, probably the slickest way of doing IPC is to
Post a private Windows message from one process to another.

This lets you leverage the queuing function of Windows, and from there
you can build a state machine on both sides of the system.

You already have a message queue in all Windows applications, why not
use it?