Re: Best (simplest) way to share data

Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote or quoted:

That's exactly the sort of solution I was wondering about.  Is there a
ready made module/library for handling this sort of thing?  Basically
it will just be a string of a few tens of characters that would be
kept up to date by one process and asked for by all the others.

 
  I'm not an expert here, and just quickly tried to make it
  run, so the code will still contain errors and not contain
  something necessary, but might give you a starting point.
 
  A process doing something (here: printing an incrementing value
  named "info") and also serving requests from other processes
  for this "info" value: