IPC/SHM is now supported by default in xoncygwin HEAD CVS tree
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Sep 18 18:33:00 GMT 2003
I just made a new Server Test Series release and posted an announcement
for the updated package. However, the source files will take a little
while to package up and post to the normal place. Until then, look at
the xoncygwin HEAD CVS if you are interested in the source.
Harold
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> I just checked in changes to the MIT-SHM
> (xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/shm.c) and XFree86Bigfont
> (xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/xf86bigfont.c) extensions that disable SHM
> support when the Cygwin IPC daemon is not running. This allows IPC/SHM
> support to be enabled by default in Cygwin/XFree86.
>
> I tried to define the functionality of an OS-specific SHM support check
> as best I could, which resulted in adding a new function called
> OsVendorShmCheck (). This new OsVendorShmCheck function is called from
> shm.c and xf86bigfont.c when DDXOSSHMCHECK is defined. This system was
> designed to work like DDXOSVERRORF and OsVendorVErrorF (), for example.
>
> I believe that the generalization of the functionality should greatly
> increase the chances of it being included in the XFree86 CVS tree. I
> will be submitting patches to XFree86 as soon as they commit my other
> waiting patches.
>
> There will be a new Server Test Series release sometime tomorrow that
> includes this new functionality.
>
>
> Harold
>
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