Re: dynamic linking

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:14:21AM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
 
> If you want to exchange structured data with other code, and you're
> communicating with that code via pipes, then you must use parsing
> (when reading) and quoting (when writing) to serialize the data over
> the pipe.

No. It's easier than that: You just pass a byte counter and the data.


> OTOH, with shared libraries, you can just pass pointers to
> structures; no serialization is needed.

You can't pass pointer between applications. Shared libraries under unix
share code, not data. This is not windows.

Regards, Uwe