Passing information between two seperate programs

Question

I want to pass a value of an input variable in my program lets say#1 to another program #2 and i want #2 to print the data it got to screen, both are needed to be written in c++. The this will be on Linux.

Answer 1

Depending on the platform there are a number of options available. What you are trying to do is typically called inter-process communication (IPC).

Some options include:

• Sockets
• Pipes
• Queues
• Shared Memory

What is easiest is probably dependent on the platform youa are using.