Synchronized Interprocess Communication

General JUCE discussion
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JUCE offers Interprocess Communication, which is very nice, but I would like to have some kind of ScopedLock object for IPC.

Would it be difficult to create some kind of class that works like this:

ScopedLock(const String &name);

This would, if there is none, create some kind of synchronisation object referenced by “name”. Then it would just lock it like a CriticalSection, and if other processes would try to access that lock at the time it still exists in process1, they would have to wait.

I have never used IPC, but it is very important for my application to have some kind of lock like this.

Would this be hard to implement?

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did you see the InterProcessLock class?

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Thanks :oops: I was already implementing my own class now … You really thought of everything in JUCE, that’s very nice!

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Hi Jules,

In the same register, is there an implementation of “Condition Variables” in Juce?
I’m looking for something like http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/doc/html/interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.conditions

Else, is there another way to make a synchronous call through a pipe? I.e. sending data to another process and waiting for its answer before returning the current function?

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That just sounds like a WaitableEvent to me…

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Given that InterprocessConnection inherits from thread, can’t we just use the usual wait()/notify() mechanism ?

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In case it’s useful for someone else, WaitableEvent worked like a charm…