is there any way to get the value of a semaphore whose value is set in perl and it needs to be accessed in
java by some other program . OR . system has its shared memory .Can it be used in java .I dont know the code and also that memory id should be known because it has to be accessed in perl program ......... need this stuff urgently ...
Actually a file is being written by aperl program and being read by a java program ... to avoid any dirty reads it has to have some shared memory or semaphore kind of stuff .... and i am new to java so dont know that a semaphore or a shared memory can be accessed in java which is having a particular id .....HELP !!