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Re: gluttton for punishment
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: gluttton for punishment
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:07:56 -0400
- References: <007a01c0c8ac$abc66550$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:42:28PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>I wrote a bared bones SUS shmget, shmat ftok implementation for cygwin.
>
>How much interest is there in seeing that fleshed out and submitted?
I'd love to have a "native" shmget, etc. implementation.
>Also are shared memory id's meant to be cross-process persistent?
Yes. That's why cygipc operates as a separate process.
>Chris - if the AT&T UWIN product supports shmget() then that's probably
>why they have a daemon component :]
They use the daemon for other things too, like suid emulation, I believe.
I proposed a daemon implementation back in 1998, though. I think that
cygwin needs one, I am just reluctant to add YA configurable component
to the distribution because my gluttony for punishment levels have been
maxed out.
However, I do think we need to add a daemon. We should add Egor's daemon
to the distribution in 1.3.1.
cgf