MIT shared memory extension

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 10:20 AM

> the cygwin-daemon code was recently merged into CVS; the 
> snapshots have 
> the functionality but the daemon itself is not "turned on" by 
> default. 
> Just like ipcdaemon.exe, you have to start up the cygwin-daemon 
> yourself.  For more info, see the cygwin-developers mailing 
> list archives.

cygdaemon provides ipc and shm, but the shm is incomplete. Someone want
to fund it? (only half kidding).

As for it being turned on, you need to patch newlib (for the new key_t
definition) and cygwin (to export the functions) and then rebuild
cygwin.

Rob