MIT shared memory extension
Ralf Habacker
Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de
Sun May 5 14:25:00 GMT 2002
> > 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).
Can you explain this a little bit more ?
> As for it being turned on, you need to patch newlib (for the new key_t
> definition)
Could this perhaps not be patched in the cvs or are there compatibility issues
against it ?
> and cygwin (to export the functions)
all shm* symbols ?
> and then rebuild cygwin.
> Rob
>
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