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Subject: Best way to share data between threads
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Hi all,

I'm porting some libraries from Win32 to BSD/Linux.  In the original code, I
receive a Windows event with an attached COM object.

Under *nix, what is the best way to copy this?  A message, followed by
accessing shared memory between threads?

jm
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