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Eliminate cygwin_getshared?
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Eliminate cygwin_getshared?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:18:01 -0400
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
I was just perusing shared.cc and came across this ill-begotten
function. It's cygwin's answer to eliminating
security-through-obscurity.
Is anyone aware of a use for this function? I can't think of any
reason to export a pointer to cygwin's shared memory area.
Even though it will potentially break backward compatibility, I'd
like to eliminate it from the next release of cygwin.
Any comments?
cgf