Windows System Programming Third Edition

EXAMPLE: PARALLEL PATTERN SEARCHING

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that the programmer must be sure to have a sufficiently large buffer. ,

, and (not in the C library) are different ways to add, change,

and remove va riables and their values, with functionality equivalent to

.

Example: Parallel Pattern Searching

Now is the time to put Windows processes to the test. This example, ,

creates processes to search for patterns in files, one process per search file. The

pattern search program is modeled after the UNIX

utility, although the

technique would apply to any program that uses standard output. The search

program should be regarded as a black box and is simply an execut