Cogent C API and Utilities : Version 6.4
	Cogent Driver Functions

`DR_ApConnectIPC`

DR_ApConnectIPC — connects to Cogent products via IPC.

Syntax

#include <cogent.h>
int DR_ApConnectIPC( char*   taskname, 
  IP_hTASK   my_task, 
  IP_hMSG   send_msg, 
  IP_hMSG   reply_msg, 
  char*   admin_name);

Arguments

taskname: The name of the user's application; it can be any unique name in the system's namespace.
my_task: The task structure required to establish inter-process communication (IPC) with another Cogent product. If NULL is specified, then this function will create the required internal task structure. The process of creating the task structure will automatically publish the taskname to the Cascade NameServer (nserve) if it is running.
send_msg, reply_msg: The message structures required to send and receive IPC messages to another Cogent product. If NULL is specified, then this function will create the required internal structures with a maximum buffer size of 2048 bytes. Messages greater than 2048 bytes in length will be truncated.
admin_name: Taskname or PID of the driver (see drcif_ad in the respective Cogent Driver manual).

Returns

The integer value 0 (DR_API_OK) if the IPC system initialized successfully, otherwise the following error may be reported:

DR_API_ERROR

Description

This function permits users familiar with the Cogent library to connect to the driver using already defined task and/or message buffers. This is the underlying function in DR_ApInitIPC, which simply calls this function with NULL task and message buffer parameters.

`int DR_ApConnectIPC(`	char*	`taskname`,
	IP_hTASK	`my_task`,
	IP_hMSG	`send_msg`,
	IP_hMSG	`reply_msg`,
	char*	`admin_name)`;


DR_ApCommand		DR_ApDescribeBuffer