Re: IPC/SHM is now supported by default in xoncygwin HEAD CVS tree

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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