I'm using mailslots to pass structs between programs, or more precisely pointers to those structs. It is "working" as its passing something, but I'm unable to print out anything from the structs on the receiving program. Do I have to do anything with memory allocation or am I missing something else?
Each program has a separate virtual address space.
So a pointer to data in one program is meaningless to any other program.
You need to pass actual data.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
How do I accomplish this when WriteFile wants a pointer?
Is this different than any other time you write out data? If you had
how would you use WriteFile to any file?Code:char big_pile_of_data[1024];
I think WriteFile would handle that big_pile_of_data just fine.
Worked around it, just sent all the data separately.
