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Re: Linux to windows IPC

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Matt Charles <mcharles48@gmail.com> writes:
> I have an existing Red Hat Linux C function  (complex business logic
> that contains some database access),  it takes some strings as input
> parameters and returns a string result.    This function is currently
> in a batch program and works fine.
>
> However I now also want to call this function somehow from a new
> Windows .NET GUI application.  The user will press a button, get an
> hour glass and wait for the response to come back  (this is what I
> mean by synchronous).     However there may be multiple users on
> different PC pressing the button at the same time, so the solution
> will have to cope with that.
>
> So I'm going to need to repackage my C code in some way to make this happen.
>
> One possible solution: Package the batch program up as a CGI
> executable and call it from Apache.

[...]

> I'm sure this will work but the approach seems a little "dated".
>
> Are there any "better" solutions that anybody can think of.

Provided you don't need authentication, a much simpler and even more
'dated' alternative exists: Create something which reads the input
parameters from its standard input and writes the result to its
standard output and make this accessible on some TCP port via inetd.

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Linux to windows  IPC Matt Charles <mcharles48@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 08:21 +0100
  Re: Linux to windows  IPC Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> - 2011-05-20 10:38 +0100
  Re: Linux to windows  IPC Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-05-20 15:00 +0100
  Re: Linux to windows  IPC William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2011-05-20 13:19 -0700
    Re: Linux to windows  IPC Matt Charles <mcharles48@gmail.com> - 2011-05-21 09:25 +0100
      Re: Linux to windows  IPC Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-21 20:34 +1200
      Re: Linux to windows  IPC Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-05-22 21:26 +0100
      Re: Linux to windows  IPC Matt Charles <mcharles48@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 12:19 +0100
  Re: Linux to windows  IPC john.spooner@gmail.com - 2012-10-25 06:31 -0700

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